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The Drake

Permit Nerves

I MUST TURN LEFT a hundred times a day. Driving, walking, spinning around in my office chair, playing with my dog, rolling over in bed, reaching for toilet paper. So the move should’ve come easy when it was needed. But it did not.

A recent December permit trip to Key West provided me

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