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November 17, 2006
More Notes from Long Lost college Friends
Hi, JBBV,
It took me a long time to think of a factoid. I don't normally think in
factoids. But i am thrilled with your having presented me with a way to
communicate that won't overwhelm you. I am on board.
I was a Funeral Director for a year, ending in April 2006. I have seen
hundreds of dead bodies. One of the embalmers where i worked had a sticker
on her car which read, "I see dead people." I wore a black suit every day.
And one for the present: I live in a tailor shop. I manage the tailor
shop. The tailor who owns it lives here, too, and we are domestic partners.
There is a tangerine tree by our balcony which is sufficiently confused by
the perpetual summer here that it often puts out a new crop of tangerines
before the last crop is even ripe-- and while the crop before that one is
still hanging, juicy, from its branches.
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Stuff | By jb | 08:34 PM