She Didn't Fix Her Reputation. She Threw It Away novel · Chapter 32 of 32
Chapter 32: Fresh Meat Night
I held the jersey up by its shoulders.
PEMBERTON stretched across the back above my number.
For years that name had been on yard signs, billboards, and campaign buttons.
Now it was stitched onto something I could sweat in.
Joel watched me turn it over.
"Toni said you could choose another name," he said.
"I know. I asked her for this one."
I pulled it on over my shirt and went downstairs to show the team.
Toni inspected the lettering.
"Wrong shade of blue," she said.
"You picked the color."
"Then I have excellent taste."
She hooked her good arm around my shoulders for a photograph.
I let Joel take it.
The next September, fresh-meat night filled the rink again.
The roof still made noise in hard rain, but it no longer leaked onto the track.
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