There’s a new used book store in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Raven Used Books, on the basement level two doors down from Shay’s Wine Bar on JFK. I was standing looking at the history books when a man stopped in front of the store to talk on his cell phone. I could hear him very clearly even though he was all the way up the stairs on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
[Something about plans for the evening…]<\/p>\n
Pause.<\/em><\/p>\n
[in a louder voice]<\/em> Dad, you don’t have to pick me up after work. I can…<\/p>\n
Long pause.<\/p>\n
[in a definitely loud voice] <\/em>I’m telling you right now, I don’t want to go out for dinner.<\/p>\n
Pause.<\/p>\n
[in softer voice]<\/em> I don’t want to go out to dinner. I just wanna go home and unpack my s— and just sit there and relax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He was still talking when I left the bookstore some five minutes later. I had expected a college student, but he was in his late thirties, curly brown hair touched with gray, blue flannel shirt and purple baseball cap, still trying to make plans for the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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