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been remodeled into an exercise salon and video rental store called
the Video Rodeowith a huge hand-lettered sign in the window announcing “NINTENDOS NOWHERE.” I
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stared for a good half minute before I made out that it meant “NOW HERE” not “NOWHERE.” The
calligrapher got cramped.
The Watering Hole was closedwith a sign on the door saying “BACK IN TEN” so I waited. The
placard was lettered in the same hand as the “NINTENDOS” sign. Maybe one person actually ran all the
stores in Grace from behind the sceneslike the Wizard of Ozpowerfully manipulating people through
hand-lettered signs. It was hot and my mind was fraying at the edges. I wiped the sweat out of my eyes
and massaged my prickly scalpthinking I must look like a drowned henbut maybe nobody would
recognize me today. Living without a lover was beginning to produce in me the odd sense that I was
invisible.
A prettyold carob tree stood near the door of the liquor storethrowing dappled shade on the
sidewalk. I knew that its twistedwoody-looking pods could be crunched between the teeth and tasted like
cocoa. I sat on a concrete block and lea [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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”
“There will be no need.”
“Signore