Ted’s door stood open; the room beyond it was almost empty. The few things of his own he’d put up—a picture of a man fishing at sunset, a picture of Mary Magdalene washing Jesus’ feet, a calendar—were gone. The ashtray on the table was empty, but sitting beside it was one of Ted’s carryhandle bags. Inside it were four paperback books: Animal Farm, The Night of the Hunter, Treasure Island, and Of Mice and Men. Written on the side of the paper bag in Ted’s shaky but completely legible handwriting was: Read the Steinbeck first. “Guys like us,” George says when he tells Lennie the story Lennie
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