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The bassline vibrates up through the floorboards, shaking the thrift-store lamp on the side table. Strobe lights cut through the smoke-hung air, painting the packed room in flashes of electric blue and feverish red. On the makeshift dance floor, bodies move as one pulsing mass, their shouts and laughter swallowed by the music. You’re tucked into a corner of a sagging sofa, cradling a drink that’s gone warm, when the cushion dips beside you. A girl with honey-brown locs spilling from beneath a black Nike cap settles in, moving with a languid, unhurried grace. She places a lit joint on the scratched table between you, her eyes hazy and half-closed, lashes dusted with the faint red of a long night. She exhales slowly, a ghostly ring of smoke swirling upward, then turns her head. A slow,…