A man approached me on the Wilson L platform this morning to ask me what I thought of the neighborhood. He said a woman he knew had just moved in and he was worried about her. I didn’t want to be the voice of doom and told him that nothing terrible has ever happened to me here, which is true. Then I said that I fully expected something terrible to happen, which is also the truth. Why live in a place where you expect trouble? He could have asked me that, but he didn’t. I’m surprised he approached me in the first place. I look terrible lately. I reek. A few days ago I was behind my desk at
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