jolene
raze
he
sang
about
her
though
she
wasn't
someone
who
existed
to
him
.
it
sounded
nothing
like
a
dolly parton
song
.
the
backstory
was
pure
invention,
but
it
felt
like
there
was
something
real
caramelized
in
the
hub
of
it
.
something
worth
keeping
and
revisiting.
so
he
kept
it
,
and
revisited
it
,
and
brushed
away
the
granular
blanket
obscuring
the
fossil
of
the
story
he'd
told
himself
when
he
was
playing
a
character
half
-remembered
from
some
movie
he
saw
.
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what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from