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Distractions

Reading at work, listening to music during labor, swatting gnats while meditating

Pumped for an infant, spilled at the dinner table, used as a tear gas antidote

Taking piano lessons, learning to speak Russian, seeking enlightenment

On a playground, at a gymnastics meet, over an apartment window

Shoplifting cigarettes, running the pool table, creating a “pocket prairie”

Get to know Boxcar Betty, Stick Dick, Lali, and the Cajun Asian

Leading a strike, starting trouble between sisters, feeding strangers

A fiftieth anniversary in Paris, a COVID Christmas in April, a first birthday in America

Swimming with whale sharks, hearing a mountain lion, refusing to eat a snake

A tag on a dumpster, poetry in an outhouse, Viking runes in an underground tomb

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