My friend's sweater

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I used to buy used clothing professionally by going through bales of clothing and picking out the items I could resell. One day I left NYC to buy items in Troy, New York. Each bale I went through held hundreds of pieces of clothing and that day I went through at least a dozen bales. Among the items I picked was a dark green, wool zipper sweater with a radiating pattern at chest level. Rarely items would have a name tag sewn in and this one did. It was the name of a friend of mine. I knew it was his sweater because it had his middle initial and he lived near Troy.
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