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Episode 01
22:14
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There are two kinds of knocking. The first kind is a neighbour who wants to know if you have salt. The second kind is patient, three knocks and a pause long enough for…
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Episode 02
19:38
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The notice came under the door on a Tuesday, folded twice, with my full name on the outside in the landlord's square handwriting. It said the room was three months…
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Episode 03
24:02
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The chain came off my bicycle at the bottom of Septima and would not go back on, and I stood there in the rain with my delivery bag over my shoulder and my thumb out…
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Episode 04
18:00
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Eight hundred and forty thousand pesos in notes, mostly small ones, and a bruise on my shin the shape of a heel. That was a Tuesday. I counted the money twice on the…
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Episode 05
22:14
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Last call is a thing you say to a room, and when the room is empty it is a thing you say to the chairs. I said it anyway at half past one, out of habit, and then I stood…
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Episode 06
19:38
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The first thing I did on my twenty first birthday was get thrown out of a bar I had been drinking in illegally for a year. My friends thought this was hilarious. They…
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Episode 07
24:02
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The scale had been lying to me since Thursday. Not much. Two hundred grams on a kilo, sometimes three, which does not sound like anything until you are selling mangoes…
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Episode 08
18:00
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The 18 does not run after eleven on a Sunday. I knew that. I stood under the shelter on the Carrera with my bag between my feet anyway, because the alternative was a…
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