“When I was a kid, there were more than fifty thousand burger places in this country,” Gaddis said. “Every corner, every airport, every ballpark. Burgers, burgers, burgers. As American as apple pie. Now you hardly see them anymore, and it makes me angry and sad. Which is idiotic. I couldn’t tell you the last time I had one. So why do I care so much? Why is it that the more I change, the more I need everything around me to stay the same? It’s a perverse design flaw in our species. That even something as inconsequential as a cheeseburger, which doesn’t affect my life one iota, still threatens my
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