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Blowing on my numb hands
while descending a flight of stairs at the subway entrance. I purchase a
token, place it in the slot and push myself through the turnstile.
Encouraged by the warm look in her eyes. “Why don’t you take off your
coat,” she says in a voice that seems too low and theatrical, lying
languidly on a daybed covered with small silk pillows. Perhaps it’s the
dim light in the room but her voice had a stronger resonance when I asked
her for the time as she walked by the park bench I was sitting on two days
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