I’m starting to wonder if maybe Gloria Grahame wasn’t a smoker, though I find that hard to believe. I want to go back and watch her other movies now, to see if she does it with conviction, but I can’t…

Breathe. You’re at one with the moment. Nope.⠀

If cigarettes were inextinguishable like this, I could write a story about a single cigarette, passed hands to lips, from an L.A. bar and out into the streets, hands to lips up the coast to San Francisco, hands to lips…