i was going to tell you that it was nothing remarkable, being on the walk again.
there was the usual assortment on waves and stuff. a guy raised his coffee cup to me.
then there was some weirdness.
an olive green car with a coexist bumper sticker and a VPR bumper sticker sat in the church driveway facing out for the longest time as i walked by. and then they pulled out and into the lot of the convenience store across the street and the driver appeared to be taking pictures of me. and then they drove away upstreet, but they weren't gone very long.
they were gone long enough to have driven as far as the library or the police station and back.
and then they pulled back into the church lot. and then they pulled out and went the other way.
i can only speculate what kind of asinine thing was going on there. if i'd known it was going to be a freakshow, i'd have taken pictures.
but then a woman stopped to ask me for the story. she said she had seen me walking week after week and wanted to know, so she made a special stop to ask. she was very kind. and she told me to keep my chin up.
and thanked me for the work.
that there, the opportunity to tell the story of what happened, is the purpose of the exercise.
the truth will set us all free.
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