loss & find
full tattoo colors, pierced, and a practiced demeanor verified he’d thoroughly lived his fifty-plus years and that he was content if people kept at least a Harley Davidson distance from him.
an astounding depth in his watery-blue eyes, as he studied the embroidery of a baseball hat dwarfed in his hands, caught my attention and, i asked.
his son, tossed by drug addiction, exhausted JB’s business equity; that the kid has become a guest of the penal system is no less a sadness.
instead of following his wife’s advice to retire, JB elected to start again; the hat wore the logo for his new venture.
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Halifax Mall – Lids Store
July 5, 2011
Halifax, NS
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