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the years seemed but days
With sun-sweat beading, He shines my shoes while telling Me old stories. Tip. photo: Osvaldo Zoom
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Pinky
My middle school piano teacher, Mr. Lipschitz, had an old-world mustache and an unenviable name, but he also had the strongest damned pinkies I’ve ever seen.
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“I’m coming in.”
Dan the ex-carnival midway worker who was district manager of Electrolux vacuum cleaners in Sandy Springs, Georgia, described his way of shuffling his feet against welcome mats – bull-like - in front of homes when someone answered the door as a declaration of, “Stand aside, ma’am, I’m coming in!”
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Swimming with them
I’ve encountered my first New York shark since the decision to move back. I called a gym a block away from my new office to see if they had a swimming pool. A man answered the phone at this popular NYC gym franchise, and no sooner had I uttered the question (“Do you have a swimming [...]
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A bio I…encountered…online for a man who works with a consultant in the homeland security field mused as follows: “[Dr. Joe Smith] a medical neuroscientist, has an MD/PhD from [West Coast] University, is the [employee title] of the Institute for Interventional Informatics and has gained international recognition for pioneering new methods of physiologically based human-computer [...]
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