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September 03, 2009 Fiction

Sucker Punch 

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Sometimes you just don't see it coming. I was on the downtown 6 train, coming back from the Bronx, thinking of the most recent girl I'd successfully driven out of my life, Angela, and doing some creative mental math to figure out…

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