On New Year's Eve, in a softly lit living room with the curtains drawn, a shaggy black and tan crossbreed dozes on a thick bed in a corner den, while a white woman in her twenties with long dark hair sits on the floor beside him in party clothes, a glass of lemonade in her hand.

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At every New Year’s party there’s one friend on lemonade. They’ve promised to drive everyone home, so while the room counts down and the bubbles go round, they stay calm and clear-headed, and at half past midnight they find the coats.

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