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  ill on, and i was sitting fully dressed oh
  my shoes on. i glanced, disoriehe y dresser. it was
  five-thirty in the m.
  i groaned, fell bad rolled over onto my fag off my boots.
  i was too unfortable to get any, though. i rolled back
  over and unbuttoned my jeans, yanking them off awkwardly as i tried to
  stay horizontal. i could feel the braid in my hair, an unfortable
  ridge along the bay skull. i turo my side ahe
  rubber band out, quibing through the plaits with my fingers. i
  pulled the pillow bay eyes.
  it was all no use, of y subscied up exactly the
  images i'd been tryiely to avoid. i was goio
  faow.
  i sat up, and my head spun for a mihe blood floard.
  first things first, i thought to myself, happy to put it off as long as
  possible. i grabbed my bathroom bag.
  the shower didn't last nearly as long as i hoped it would, though. even
  takio blow-dry my hair, i was soon out of things to do in
  the bathroom. ed in a towel, i crossed ba. i 't
  tell if charlie was still asleep, or if he had already left. i went to
  look out my window, and the cruiser was gone. fishing again.
  i dressed slowly in my most fy sweats and then made my bed — something
  i never did. i 't put it off a to my desk and
  swity old puter.
  i hated usi here. my modem was sadly outdated, my free
  servidard; just dialing up took so long that i decided to go
  get myself a bowl of cereal while i waited.
  i ate slowly, g each bite with i was done, i washed the
  booohem, and put them away. my feet dragged as i
  climbed the stairs. i went to my cd player first, pig it up off the
  floor and plag it pre the ter of the table. i pulled out
  the headphones, and put them away in the desk drawer. thehe
  same , turning it dow where it was baoise.
  with anh, i turo my puter. naturally, the s was
  pop-up ads. i sat in my hard folding d began g
  all the little wiually i made it to my favorite search
  e down a few more pop-ups ayped in one word.
  vampire.
  it took an infuriatingly long time, of course. whes came up,
  there was a lot th — everything from movies and tv shows to
  role-playing games, undergroual, and gothietipanies.
  then i f site — vampires a—z. i atiently for it
  to load, quickly g closed each ad that flashed across the s.
  finally the s was finished — simple white bad with black
  text, academig. two quotes greeted me on the home page:
  throughout the vast shadhosts ahere is no figure
  so terrible, no figure so dreaded a dight with such
  fearful fas, as the vampire, who is himself nor
  demo who partakes the dark natures ahe mysterious
  and terrible qualities of both. — rev. montague summers
  if there is in this world a well-attested at, it is that of the
  vampires. nothing is lag: official reports, affidavits of well-known
  people, eons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is
  most plete. and with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
  — rousseau
  the rest of the site habetized listing of all the different
  myths of vampires held throughout the world. the first i , the
  danag, ino vampire supposedly responsible f taro on
  the islands long ago. the myth ued that the dah
  humans for ma the partnership ended one day when a woman cut
  her finger and a danag sucked her wouhe taste so much that
  it drained her body pletely of blood.
  i read carefully through the dess, l that
  sounded familiar, let alone plausible. it seemed that most vampire myths
  tered arouiful women as demons aims; they
  also seemed like structs created to explain away the high mortality
  rates f , and to give men an excuse for iy. many
  of the stories involv