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Joel John

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I Used to Be a Somebody, But Now I Am Old Lady #3

Weekly Contest #348

The director yelled, “Action!” and I shuffled across the sterile hallway in my orthopedic shoes, pushing an empty walker that wasn’t even mine. The nurse actors were fake-laughing at fake jokes, the lighting was too bright, and the young actress in the bed was pretending to be sick. Meanwhile, I — seventy years of the silver screen compressed into twelve seconds of background movement — was “Old Lady #3.” I didn’t even get a name.1.You should know something about me.Once upon a time — back in the Sixties, when glamour had teeth and studios...

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