Northbound, University and St. Clair West
Caucasian male, late 20s, with short brown hair, wearing grey turtleneck under hooded wool jacket, and brown leather boots.
Nature Girl, Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)
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Fry sat down on his backpack and contemplated the obvious futility of opening an eco-lodge in a trailer park. Based on what he saw, he didn’t have high hopes for his mother’s nature mural. She had bestowed upon her psychedelic macaw the lush eyelashes of a dairy cow and the dainty tongue of a fruit bat.
Forced to take summer art classes as a boy, he spent the most hypnotic hour of his youth scribbling his name into the bare branches of a pencil crayon tree. While the children around him laboured with “Kim,” “John,” and “Dana,” to no great effect, Maximilian II finally wrote his name out in full, his tree blossoming before his very eyes.
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