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Dear Sister

July 11, 2010 - 2pm

I found this somber, enigmatic note posted on the Aurora Bridge this morning. It’s written in faded pen.

It reads:

   Dear Sister,

     All is
       forgiven.

    Please
        come
           home

The full significance didn’t hit me until I remembered that the Aurora is one of the most popular suicide bridges in the US.  About two hundred and thirty people have leapt to their deaths in the last decade.

So Very Tempting

July 1, 2010 - 11pm

I was propositioned by a crack whore today.

There’s a corner up the street from our office where I’m reasonably certain I saw a crack deal go down a few weeks ago.  I can’t say for certain that’s what it was, but it certainly appeared to be the case: the partially concealed handing of something small from one man  to another, followed by a furtive hand shoved into a filthy pocket and a brisk walk away.  Plenty of crackheads in Belltown.

I and some coworkers were walking up the street on this same corner.  A woman sat stretched across the knee-height cinder block retaining wall.  As we crossed to her side of the street, she looked me directly in the eyes and smacked her lips three times with a loud popping sound, opening her mouth wide each time.

That’s… that’s not what I was think it was.  Right?  I mean, after Friday’s weirdness, the odds of additional weirdness so soon are really, really low.  And really, that’s her sales pitch?  Does that actually work?

I continued pondering this just long enough for my coworkers to start laughing.

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