Girlfriend in newspaper
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When I was 17 I lived in Wakefield, RI, USA. I drove a newspaper delivery van for a summer job. One day on the job I was talking obsessively to my assistant (Ron) about a girl I had been dating that summer. We had stopped in front of a store. Ron, exasperated, handed me a loose newspaper and said, "Relax. Read the paper. I'll handle this delivery. When I get back, I don't want to hear another word about her!" After he left to deliver the bundle of papers to the store, I absent-mindedly opened the newspaper to the first page of the "B" section (state and local news) and there she was, staring up at me, from a rather large photo (at least 1/8 page).
Date submitted:Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:21:07 +0000Coincidence ID:8190
