… and people are selling\u00c2\u00a0 hats on the metro.\u00c2\u00a0 “Peruvian style hats.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep your ears warm, in colors to match your outfit or your shoes.\u00c2\u00a0 Only five dollars.”\u00c2\u00a0 The mans sales partner then repeats the pitch in Spanish.\u00c2\u00a0 A teenage boy staggers down the aisle and asks, “can I please have a dollar.\u00c2\u00a0 I need something to get something to eat.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m starving.\u00c2\u00a0 My stomach hurts.”\u00c2\u00a0 He seems so young, in the childlike way that his voice expects someone to take care of him, implores that someone take care of him.\u00c2\u00a0 Seconds after the hungry boy moves to the next car, another teenage boy in a fashionable jacket and wearing headphones enters the car.\u00c2\u00a0 He looks like other boys I have seen on big city public transportation – stylish and handsome, but this boy moves with a quiet confidence instead of the usual swagger.\u00c2\u00a0 In a minute, I look over and see that he is covering his face and silently crying.\u00c2\u00a0 He tries to compose himself, but the tears keep coming.\u00c2\u00a0 The people nearby steal nervous, sympathetic glances, unsure of whether to risk embarrasing the boy by aknowledging his tears.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, the woman sitting across the aisle from him hands him a tissue.\u00c2\u00a0 He takes it and gets off at the next stop.\u00c2\u00a0 The woman and a man sitting nearby talk about their jobs.\u00c2\u00a0 The woman gets off the train and the man shots after her asking if he can give her his number.\u00c2\u00a0 The woman says that she’ll see him tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 The man sighs, contentedly as we sinks back into his seat.\u00c2\u00a0 The man and I get off at the same stop.\u00c2\u00a0 It is raining steadily now.\u00c2\u00a0 He says, “it’s like they say, the further west you go, the wetter you get,” and I can’t wait to be moving eastward again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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