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...still your taxi hasn't come...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Strangers in the Night | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...sorta nice out tonight, ain't it? What're you doin' out here?" the man continues, gesturing towards the street. Taxi-cabs swish by, lots of them, all with their VACANT signs turned off. And it doesn't look so good to you. But their headlights shimmer in the rain and are kind of pretty and the sidewalks look like patent leather with all the garbage washed off for once...maybe if you weren't sated all the time with Chopin and ivy-covered brick and first editions of Shelley you might get something out of this back street, might...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Strangers in the Night | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...still your taxi hasn't come...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Strangers in the Night | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...still your taxi hasn't come...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Strangers in the Night | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...that man bothering you, miss? You should come inside and get warm. You can call a taxi from the station." The good guy is all concern. And you follow him inside to the coffee and doughnuts. That man has bothered you. Not the way the good guys think, just made you mad and miserable and aching-bitter as bones that never have a dry spot to rest on Sunday nights. But you and the good guys are on the same side, really. And with them you don't get confronted by anything that makes you uncomfortable. So maybe...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Strangers in the Night | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

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