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molly's avatar

oh jesus I love this so much. I'm going back to boston in ~3 weeks for school and I feel the contradictions you describe. Me and my old dorm-mate used to point at the grim contrast of tweakers scratching their arms and writhing in front of the Citizens HQ.

also, did you get threatened in front of the downtown Old Navy? that's the same place a guy in his 50s walked up to me and asked if I wanted to buy weed off of him, and when I said no, asked if I wanted money. Oh Boston and the beating of my pained heart.

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James Worth's avatar

first of all thank you for the kind words and welcome back to sox nation (soon). the city continues to confound, as i imagine it always will.

also, yup, that's the one lol! my thing was also about weed but the guy was very aggressively asking where he could buy some in the area and said he would kill me if i didn't point him in the right direction. i was, like, probably the common?? and he was like, oh okay cool. very weird interaction. i worked in the gap factory in dtx for seven years lmao so i ran into plenty of interactions like that one

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