meg me were friends when we were in school we were the only riot grrrls that we knew summer jobs at the oak mall cinemas 1 2 we saw every movie we could sit through gin in soda cups when we d work nights the projectionist gave us weed sometimes we d drive around in my father s taurus singing along with the tapes that meg made us meg went crazy we lost touch i don t think of her much i ve got kids of my own the oldest half grown i left for reed that fall meg got fired but we d talk on the phone most nights til we got tired i made friends with girls my age meg drank on her own when the money ran out she moved home  we d drive around when i came home for christmas wondering if we ran who d miss us