Outside, it's red, neon light reading "Always Open" beckons to the outsider like a beacon in the window, connoting safety, shelter: "You are welcome, you are here."
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For me, getting to watch "The Mask" was a way of wearing the mask - I was able to, for a few quiet hours - be someone and somewhere else.
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When we were boys, we spoke of Old Man Yirdle as if he were an old myth, nothing but hearsay and exaggeration. We thought he was some kind of witch, that he ate children to keep him from aging.
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Randy’s first robbery ended the way such things do: with vomit in a McDonald’s brown bag and a black eye.
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