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Lowell Hochstein

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What do get when you squeeze a lemon?

Weekly Contest #343

What do you get when you squeeze a lemon?byLowell Jay Hochstein Jesse hated me. I suspect he hated me from the first moment he saw me. He had just arrived home from prison. I was sitting in his mother’s kitchen, eating a fried baloney sandwich and drinking Cool-Aid from a jelly jar.I was seven in 1956. Jesse’s mother, whom everyone called Miz Pat, took care of me during those long summer days when I was out of school, and my mother was at work at the local A&P. My summer with Miz Pat had begun two months before Jesse came home.“What the ...

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The Girl Who Let Her Clothes Do All Her Talking For Her

Weekly Contest #335

The Girl Who Let Her Clothes Do All Her Talking For HerbyLowell Jay Hochstein I never thought of myself as a thief. Not really. Sure, I took stuff, but it was only for the owner’s own good. I never took money, jewelry, or anything like that. I only took clothes, bad clothes, clothes that needed taking. It was like a quest with me, my small way of beautifying the world. Nothing felt better than relieving an otherwise stylish closet of a hideous outfit. It almost felt like the charitable thing to do rather than a crime.Now, I’m not egotistica...

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