Entry Seven

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Entry Seven: September 22, 2011

I’m sitting on a bench; a plastic-like, cold and dark bench. The scene around me is so dramatically depressing, journal. I am not the only one here who has set up permanent residence. Some homeless people here are older than my grandparents; some are ten years younger than me. An old woman sits on the bench beside me. She looks normal. I wouldn’t know, I swear, if I hadn’t also spent the night here, that her old bones used a bench for a bed. She collects things; abandoned pennies, old hats blown away from their owners, fallen bobby pins. It’s like she’s trying to collect a life she could have had, had things gone differently.

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