I Canceled the Money While They Were Still Watching the Ball Drop

was late. And she hadn’t told me this part, but I found out soon enough: she’d also been fired in November for not showing up after a three-day bender in Nashville with Brent and some friends whose names she couldn’t remember.

She talked for twenty minutes, maybe more. Fast, messy, makeup coming off on her fingers. At one point she actually said, “You continue reading …