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Birth of a Salesman.

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Birth of a Salesman.

Gentrification. Land grabs. Scrubbing. Riley missed a lot on his day off.

William Vincent Carleton
Jul 19, 2021
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Birth of a Salesman.

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By the time my children went with their mother it was 4pm. Got home around 4:30 and couldn’t get myself to write. It was stubbornness. I knew I had no excuse, and I also knew that writing would eventually happen before it was too late. I had to get the damn ten pages done.

I loved every minute of it.

From 7:45 to 9:45pm I pushed hard, and produced these e…

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