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Print: $5.99 Download: $0.99 "I contemplate it all, staring at a gray static snow at the Greyhound station in my new haircut, a thousand dollars cash in my pocket, and my left leg resembling raw hamburger peppered with dirt and gravel. The bus is gone now, and with Ginger Ogden on it. My only option now is to leave here but there’s the possibility that Ginger Ogden’s dad is maybe still on the prowl out on the streets. Even if I made it home alive, Ma Heps would be waiting for me, and after the knife incident the other night and her threat to complete my circumcision, I don’t think much good awaits me there. At eighteen, in the bus station, I suddenly find myself a man without a nation..."
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