amanda hesser – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 25 Dec 2015 03:56:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 How it is https://orangette.net/2011/04/how-it-is/ https://orangette.net/2011/04/how-it-is/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:40:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/how-it-is I think I might have told you about my father’s friend Michael. Sometime in the early ‘90s, Burg was on his way out of the grocery store, and being something of a car buff, he stopped to check out a Citroën in the parking lot. While he stood there with his grocery bags, the owner of the car came along – or maybe the owner was in the car; these details are long gone – and he turned out to be a man named Michael. They struck up a conversation, and something must have clicked, because for years after that, they were best friends. Michael was a native New Yorker, a former cab driver-slash-writer turned small business owner, intense and…

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