VIRGINIA LITERATURE

Love Thy Neighbor

by Eric Kalata | COMMUNITY, DO GOOD, VIRGINIA LITERATURE

There was a new guy that moved across the street from me, a new neighbor, and every time he saw me on the front porch puffing away, he asked to bum a smoke. It got so incessant that I had begun smoking in the backyard instead, not wishing to part with any of my...

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