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Maye had family scattered all across Canada, and Musk began reaching out to them

• reach out to sb: to show sb that you are interested in them and/or want to help them
  仿句：The company needs to find a new way to reaching out to itselve

Musk called a second cousin out of the blue from the bus station and hitched a ride to his house

• out of the blue: unexpectedly; without warming
  His decision about leaving came out of the blue

Musk found a note on the dorm room door, notifying him that he'd been stood up

• stand sb up: to deliberately not meet sb you have arranged to meet, especially sb you are having a romantic relationship with

Justine had already fallen in love with an older man and then ditched him to go to college

• ditch: v. ~sb/sth. to get rid of sth/sb because you no longer want or need it/them
  He ditched his girlfriend
• dump sb 也有與某人結束戀愛關系的意思

幾個小詞組：

• run-of-the-mill: adj. ordinary, with no special or interesting features
• Johnny-come-lately: n. （尤指自負的）新人，新手
• spot-on： adj. exactly right
• matter-of-fact: adj. 不動感情的，據實的

Summary:

Somebody had to stay sober during these parties, I was paying my own way through college and could make an entire month's rent in one night. Adeo was in charge of doing cool shit around the house, and I would run the party 看完這里超佩服他，作為一個目標明確的人就是這樣一種存在，不會因為各種因素影響自己的行為，就連在追妹子時，也不忘成績要拔尖。看到這一段想起木心寫過的一句話“富可敵國等到大毒梟，他們不吸海洛因，衣冠楚楚，文質彬彬，會藹然對你說：年輕人，珍惜青春、生命，只有一次生命