Avoidable Contact Forever

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Jack Baruth
Feb 11, 2018
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I first saw the kid in the corner of a "meeting space" about two months before the end of my contract. Tall, skinny, basement pale, awkward bowl haircut, bewildered look. Polyester slacks. Yellow stripe shirt with these absurd white contrast French cuffs and collar. Two-thirds of a prom outfit from the white-trash site of urban Columbus, really.

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