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When he awoke the day after graduation only to find that Ryan had already left town in his dad’s van, he felt as though he would never eat again. The summer months continued to be hot and sticky, but the jut of hip bones and slender spines and decaying bodies and fireflies and looks that they gave each other but weren’t allowed to speak about was behind him. The secret pact of staring at each other and biting their lips before glancing away was broken. The unknowable, unplaceable thing that they’d both known and both placed was unlearned and forgotten. Summer simply became summer, with all the unpleasantries that were attached to it.