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There is a stretch in Reba, after the composed part collapses and before the whistling, where nobody in the crowd knows what to do with their hands. You either close your eyes or you look around. That night at Deer...
I was 24 and working nights at a hospital in Gainesville. I traded three shifts to get to that swamp and I would have traded thirty.
My roommate had an extra ticket and I said yes the way you say yes to a coworker's improv show. I brought a book. I want that on the record: I brought a book to Red Rocks.
Thirteen nights at the Garden. No repeats. I had a spreadsheet, two roommates who stopped speaking to me, and a manager who thought my grandmother died twice.
Two hundred and some miles on a steel touring bike with a sleeping bag bungeed to the rack like an idiot. I left on a Wednesday. It started raining Thursday morning and did not meaningfully stop.
The venue let tapers in but my stand had been confiscated in Winston-Salem two nights earlier for reasons that were, in fairness, entirely my fault.