Jacey pretended to care for Alice so well, the illusion became so complete that even he was fooled.
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Jacey Holt You look like a clown. He looks like a clown, mom, and he doesn't even know it. I thought you weren't going to the party.
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Narrator/Older Doug Everything Jacey wanted in life, the Abbotts already had: their cars, money, country clubs. But in the beginning, more than anything else, he wanted Eleanor Abbott. I'd witnessed enough of my brother's social agony to resolve early on. I would never let the Abbotts matter to me.
Narrator/Older Doug I had always thought of Eleanor Abbott as just another stuck-up rich girl, a flirt, a tease. But she proved to be a bigger riddle than I ever was. Jacey and I never talked about that thing with Eleanor in the garage, but Jacey never bragged about his conquests. When he went off to college that fall, I didn't feel particularly sad, I felt free.
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