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12 Making the Man Other people wear clothes that I like, but I try them on and they never fit.The clothes that fit make me look like a father, even if I’m walking into a hotel three hundred miles from home. Other people fell out of the hotel through the years, either because they wanted to or someone pushed. I go outside to a sandwich shop a block away to get the fallen people out of my head, but after the sandwich I still have to walk back to the hotel. I still have to go home wearing the clothes I have. My shirts balloon. Shorts too tight in the waist, too loose in the crotch. Shoes are comfortable, but trip over wires and kick against walls. People live better inside clothes I give up regularly, hoping I fit somewhere in a home, the way people fit inside their homes. ...

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