Losing them, fixing them, forgetting to put them in
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Carol Estes is a freelance writer with Luddite tendencies. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
Dale and I sit in opposite corners of the nearly empty McDonald’s where I come to grade freshman English themes — he by the front window and I in the back near the restrooms. Twenty years ago we worked together, but now Dale is homeless, and I pretend not to know him.