On my last night in Louisville, I’ve arranged to meet up with Eli’s friend Akasha and two of her friends for karaoke at the Levee, a small smoky bar on the Indiana bank of the Ohio River. All three women are blue badges, and all three like working at SDF8. I drink a beer and watch the news on the TV behind the bar as I wait. I haven’t really been following the election—keeping up with the news lately feels even more like work than my shame-pile of unread books. It’s on mute, but Republican front-runner Donald Trump appears to have issued a Christmas tweet demanding credit for an Obama
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