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Submitted to Contest #313
Dollar and Whiskey JFK International Airport, September 1987 Marek Zielinski clutched the strap of his worn leather satchel as he stepped off the plane. The smell hit him first-sterile, with a strange sweetness in the recycled air. Then came the noise. A man shouting into a payphone. The rapid clicks of heels on tile. Children’s laughter. An announcement in English that zipped past him like a gust of wind: something about baggage claim and Terminal B. He understood none of it. His English was minimal—textbook phrases and phonetic guessing...
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