I’d like to thank Kim for emailing a link to this story with this note: This is your destiny. (For those too bored to click, it’s a story about a 91-year-old reporter who “covers” the Pentagon. Problem is, he hasn’t written a story in six years. Just keeps showing up to work, day in, day out. “Mr. Cromley has a cubicle in the Pentagon press room outfitted with an old Royal typewriter without a ribbon, a 1971 World Almanac and 17 toothbrushes in a plastic cup.”)
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30 May | 15:36 | Alice
Yay! A future! Wait, I'm in TV; I guess I couldn't be even counted on to show up every day.
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