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    Emma       What does that cost? How much did Kevin pay you for the night?
    Kim       You’re gonna gasp.
    Emma       No we won’t.
    Charlie       Don’t say it. We don’t wanna know.
    Myron       Oh yes we do!
    Kim       Promise you won’t freak out and drop your jaws.
    Emma       We promise.
    Charlie       You don’t owe anyone here anything.
    Myron       We’re not judging you, we’re just curious . . .
    Kim       Fifteen thousand.
    Emma       Holy shit!
    Myron       Unbelievable.
    Charlie       Are you serious?
    Kim       But I’ll do anything.
    Myron       Sweetheart, I’ll fuck a bear for fifteen thousand dollars. You can take a syringe full of scabies and shoot them into my eyes for fifteen k. Fuck! How fucked up is our society?! Guys like Kevin O’Donnell up there on Wall Street are dumping more money into whores . . .
    Kim       Hey!
    Myron       Sorry. ‘Escorts . . .’ than I make in six months protecting an entire island from going up in flames. And you know what really kills me? Who bailed them out? Who the fuck bailed them out when they were drowning up to theirBluetooth earpieces in bad loans and debt. Me. The regular working guys you’re talking about. They took my money and gave it to the Kevin O’Donnells of the world, so they could fuck whores and produce whore records.
    Kim       Hey.
    Emma       Myron.
    Myron       And you know, technically . . . the thing is . . . I mean if you really wanna zoom out; in the macro of this situation, I have personally paid for a fraction of tonight’s services. And I would like to redeem my portion now. What do you say, Charlie?
    Charlie       He paid you fifteen thousand dollars to sleep with me?
    Kim       Yes. But look how cute I am. And I came all the way down here to Long Beach Island. And you can do whatever you want to me . . .
    Emma       Except for your asshole . . .
    Kim       Yeah, except for my asshole.
    Myron       I have a similar policy.
    Charlie       Look, it was a nice thing for Kevin to do. He gave me the finest thing he could afford to cheer me up.
    Emma       A fuck? Is that the finest thing a rich man can afford?
    Charlie       No. He sent me some company. He rented me some friendship.
    Kim       Totes. We have this thing called GFE. It stands for ‘the girlfriend experience’. One guy I never even slept with, he just wanted to cuddle. I hugged the guy for a week and made like fifty thousand dollars.
    Myron       Could I have his number?
    Kim       No.
    Myron       I will hug the shit out of that guy. I will literally hug him until he shits the bed from too much hugging.
    Charlie       God, people will do anything to avoid being alone.
    Emma       You wanna be alone.
    Charlie       I do now, but not . . . before. Before I would do anything I could to avoid being alone. I’d scroll through my phone looking for someone to text. In line for coffee, in the car; I always had to be talking or texting someone . . .
    Emma       Are you lonely, Charlie?
    Charlie       Of course I’m lonely.
    Emma       Then why are you trying so hard to get rid of us? Isn’t this what you want? You’re lonely and here you are surrounded by other people.
    Kim       Maybe it’s like being bone-tired. You feel bone-lonesome.
    Charlie (
a small smile
)      Hmm. I suppose; that’s a good way to