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Talk to nice sleep. The first time I saw the man with the top hat and cane, I was 17 years old

and had just graduated high school.

I was hanging out with my girl for the summer before heading off to the Army in a couple of weeks.

I joined up despite the fact that the war in Vietnam was still going on.

Things there weren't looking so good, and I had it under good authority,

that authority being my ex-army father, that I

wouldn't see a stitch of combat. Watergate was all over the news. According to my ever-so-wise

father, Nixon was in deep shit, and sending more boys to die in the jungle didn't make good

political sense. Technically, the lottery was still active,

but the draft was over. It had expired the year before, right after I got my driver's license.

Oh, look! Beatrice, my little bee, said as she pointed at a flyer stapled to the telephone

pole outside Hamlin's diner. We were about to order

to go for our late picnic out on the reservoir. A couple of burgers, a bag of fries, and

a large vanilla shake. I also had a few cans of hams I stole from my father's beer fridge

in the garage. He knew I took them, but never said a word. I stared at the poster for a second,

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