chapter forty-eight

[ IN WHICH SHE REVISITS THE NIGHT OWL CLUB ]

A famous actor named, Joaquin Phoenix once said— “I’ve been in clubs. I don’t like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It’s not my idea of a good time. It’s just a miserable life.”

Well, that is him.

I, November Starkey, I am a different person.

People also say that a man's poison is another man's meat. What is bad for Joaquin may not be bad for me. I have also been to clubs, and it almost destroyed me, but that was because I went into the infamous Nightlife as a minor. Now, I am grown, and no longer a minor. I can handle my liquor. I am smarter now. So, in this case, I will use a famous adage by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, which says, “what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.” This Nightlife style of living I have indulged myself into will make me stronger.

At dawn, I will walk out of the club a brand new person.

I will let go tonight.

Nightlife will change me.

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