June 26th, 2008

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Bloor Line, thankful for bare arms

Asian woman, mid 20s, wearing brown short-sleeved turtleneck, grey dress pants, and carrying a black “EP” backpack.

Applied Arts Magazine, May/June 2008

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Reading from "Drawn to Afghanistan" by Richard Johnson

Once there, he had to win over the soldiers who were wary of the media.

She fires up her laptop and checks her news feed. Celebrity C-section. Auto plant closure. More diet claims. And two soldiers dead. She navigates the server to the press release while she flips to his picture in the catalogue, a candid snap of a tired young man home on leave, taken by his wife the moment after they’d decided he wouldn’t go back. Take the picture, honey. I want the kids to remember this.

 
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