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hugo always was a troublemaker. even in his youth, he was always the provocateur, dragging lefty along to dubious bars in bad neighborhoods, hanging with a tough punk rock crowd -- that hole that "mysteriously appeared" in his ribbing one day, and that he closed up with a safety pin -- lefty would have been perfectly happy to go to a jazz club and drink too much coffee but that wasn't extreme enough for hugo.
but though hugo's antics sometimes make lefty suffer, they seem truly complementary somehow ; i suspect that without lefty's calming influence, hugo would probably spiral farther and farther out of control until he came completely unravelled, and that deep down, without hugo, lefty's life would be a little *too* routine... boring, even.
sure, they have their moments of crisis when it seems they'll never again manage to roll up together in that little ball they used to make, but when hugo drags himself home in a lamentable state and lefty, clean and still smelling fresh from the last time, goes through the wash along with him just to keep him company, so they'll keep fading together at the same rate and never be mismatched, you know that neither one of them will ever get lost in the spin cycle.
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