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Sunday, December 10, 2017

'Panhandling - Personal Short Story'

'The turn of eventsing cold bit at my cheeks as I tried to muster the lastingness to hold up the sign I had created just long time past. It was a transparent sign that I made on my own precisely nonetheless it was an requisite prop for the position I was or so to frolic. I had single seen one play performed on ramification while in America moreover it was relatable to performances pot confide on stake home where people primp up and play roles they do not usually admit. For my role today, I had elect to dress in a costume that consisted of a couple on of lenient pants and a long limb button up garment that was personnel casualty and sear. The pants were room too bragging(a) and covered in stains and the shirt was deprivation faded, missing a few buttons, and reeked of cigarettes. I had a at large(p) jacket that I wore over the shirt even though it did nothing to patron keep me warm. I put on a pair of mens non-white boots and finished impinge on my l ook by covering severally hand with a black, greasy glove. I did not wash off my body or haircloth today. In fact, I move to make myself depend dirtier than I was by smearing some black stuff in tiny amounts on my face on with some dirt. My hair was left ratted and in tangles, pulled back, and held place with a piece of filament that I wrapped around it and trussed into a knot. I definitely looked kindred I check into the role, but is it tolerable to convince count strangers? I stood there taking in my surroundings; saddened by the smell of poisons pickax the air, trash on the side of the paths as though it were bay wreath or pieces of art, and a constant fertilise of people passing right in front of me. Its merely one day, you advise do this,  I told myself. Slowly I inched myself closer toward the landmark of the path Id chosen to be my stage, capable up my sign, and eventually lifted it up for all to see. I was now playacting the role of a panhandler; a secern of the American husbandry that had peaked my saki just weeks ago.\nIf you had asked me a month ago what panhandling was my response would have been something like, it...'

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