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This is How Feeling Seen Can Seem Like It Saved Your Life
Superman is still a man
Coffee is for closers.
As David Mamet also tells us in his play Glengarry, Glen Ross, one should always be closing. I did not try for either a beverage or a sale.
Others will have to decide whether I pitch woo well enough to rate a latte, for this was not that kind of endeavor.
This adventure was ours, and the future was a blank slate.
Able to leap small buildings
I posted up at an outdoor café in San Francisco, as one does. At the same time, I was locked up safe, alone in my fortress of solitude.
It was so not super, man.
I was lost in thought. These were some of my questions:
a. How can I enjoy a Guinness through a mask?
b. Is it even possible to drink beer through a mask?
c. I bet I’d be paid well enough to leap tall buildings at a single bound if I could figure that out.
I was so used to being alone with me that she had to repeat her opening salutation.
She said, “Live a little. Look around; you’re safe!” Her voice shocked me back to Earth and away from the planet Krypton. I was…
