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Low life

Confessions of a cave-dweller continued

4 August 2018

9:00 AM

4 August 2018

9:00 AM

The cave house next to ours is let out to weekly renters. A green-eyed German with a ponytail came out of his cave to stand on his terrace and look for the Blood Moon at the same time as I stood 30 yards farther along the ledge to look. There was no moon to be seen and we spread our arms and opened our palms to each other in that universal expression of frustration.

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