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Weekly Contest #287
I wasn’t looking to escape, not even in the brief moment it took to slurp down my cappuccino at Giovanni’s Café on Lafayette Street. Not escape exactly. A respite from the whirlwind of disasters that had plagued me for the past year was what I had in mind. Besides, how much escape could be found sitting in a stiff rod iron chair next to a plate glass window, on full display for every tourist rushing by? Maybe that was the point. Maybe I was looking for the anonymity only found in a crowd of strangers. The b...
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