Word: ayers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, Mark got really into New Age: crystals, aromatherapy, veganism. He put down his harmonica and took up yoga. He followed some guru out to a town called Ayer, 40 miles northwest of Boston. No one knew what he was doing out there, but no one had ever known what Mark was doing, really...
...last Friday afternoon, having commissioned a roommate's boyfriend and his car, I set out for Ayer, Massachusetts. I didn't have Mark's street address, as all he'd given anyone was his post office box, but I remembered him telling me at one point that he worked in a health food store. Unfortunately, there were no health food stores on the main street of the working-class ghost-town of Ayer. So, I stopped into the next logical place--a liquor store. Have you seen this man? I asked the clerk, flashing my picture. He hadn...
...asked her if she knew anything about the New Age guru Mark had followed to Ayer. She said that her name was Joyce and she lived in Groton, Massachusetts. She hadn't heard anything about my uncle's health food store job, but she happened to know that there was but one health food store in Groton, and that it was on the main street...
Meanwhile, night had fallen and my driver wanted dinner. I agreed to head back to Harvard without my green sash, my golden fleece, the right shoe size for my glass slipper. We drove back toward Route Two in silence. All of a sudden, I spotted the Ayer Police Station. Stop! I cried...
...asked the men in blue. They didn't, but they ran a check on his license. We have an address, they told me, but we're not authorized to give it out. Please, I begged--my mother is so worried. "What makes you think he's in Ayer?" they demanded to know. I forced tears to my eyes. Give us your license, they barked. I pushed a tear down my cheek. That got them--they gave me the address...