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...sized them up. Matt??s straightened hair had grown since the spring; it fell gracefully onto his white dress shirt, framing a full beard. Andrew, who styles his shorter blonde hair with gel and has a habit of stroking his goatee, wore small-framed glasses and Diesel jeans. “Well, you gotta try to blend in,” the Nashville native told them. “You gotta master the Woohoo! and the ye-ah.” He laughed. “Oh man, holy shit. Well,” and he looked them...
...Matt??s telling, providence played a leading role. At the start of last year, someone posted a map of the United States at the bottom of Winthrop’s F entryway; around the same time, Winthrop’s housing director assigned Matt and Andrew to F-43. It was like when the stars pulled Romeo and Juliet to the same costume party, except without the untimely deaths. Soon, they were spending idle time at the bottom of the entryway, staring at those 50 states, so many oddly shaped unknowns, longing. By the spring they made their...
Since then, Matt??s job has taken up nearly all of his time and much of his sleep—frequently this summer he would excuse himself from a relaxed meal to use his Blackberry—but he has no regrets. “I love it,” he told me. “I love my job. I have a lot of exploring to do, but I really do love having a public service...
...weeks before Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Matt and Andrew ended their trip in Matt??s house in East Rockaway, New York. Not forgetting their superstition, but worrying that they might forget everything that happened, they decided to act. How would they compress the eight weeks into words? Instead of writing down all the places they’d been or all the things they’d thought, Andrew told me, they recorded something I’ve never before seen in a travelogue: the names of all the people they?...
...Matt??s been getting on base for us, being a catalyst,” Mann said. “If we get some power out of him, we’ll be that more dangerous in the lineup...