Joshua Malbin

I was waiting on the platform at Atlantic-Pacific when I realized that the woman beside me who just got off the express to also wait for the local was Sarah Vowell. She was editing something in green pen. I had something I wanted to edit myself, but I felt like if I pulled it out and started on it, it would look like I was copying her. Or something equally neurotic. I left it in my bag and stood there for a really long time with nothing to do.

Then I got home and looked up Sarah Vowell’s picture, and sure enough, the woman on the subway platform wasn’t her.

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