Angel's Trumpet

The first time I came across the name Miss Abel was on the bus ride home from my shift at the diner. I was sitting two rows from the front of the bus, flipping through the newspaper I had snatched from the seat adjacent to mine. It was by luck, I suppose (though I hesitate to justify using such a word), that my thumb, with its traces of syrup, lingered ever so slightly on the corner of the classified ads page. And, as the page fluttered back down, an advertisement (which had become partially tattooed on my thumb, thanks to my syrup-stained fingers) caught my eye.

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