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...porous border from Baja California, heading north to Los Angeles, where the wages are relatively high and the questions relatively few. They come from China, in coffin ships like the Golden Venture, in quest of asylum. They fly in from Ireland, willing to pull a few pints or pound a few nails in exchange for some greenbacks and, if they're lucky, a green card...
Star Market turkeys range from 69 cents to 79 cents per pound. Turkeys in smaller grocery stores are more expensive. At Sage's Market on Church Street, turkeys range from 99 cents to $1.09 per pound...
...epic trip to the Porter Square Star Market. On the return trip on the T, two of us carried back a 22-pound turkey, three boxes of Stove Top stuffing, two boxes of instant mashed potatoes, a head of lettuce, four liters of soft drinks, plus tomatoes, cucumbers, a turkey baster, a pan to cook the turkey, salt, pepper and assorted herbs and spices...
...suspect, a 5'7", 170 pound white male in his 20s, then took a large amount of cash from the store's safe, which he forced the supervisor to open. He then fled the store. The suspect was unshaven, very dirty, and was wearing a grey stocking cap and a grey winter jacket at the time of the robbery...
...more, and worse. "Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls," Keillor writes. "Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet, a bad hormone experience. Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees...