I am sitting in a cafe and I am waiting to talk with a pastor.
A woman approaches me.
“I hear you are a writer,” she says.
She is from Germany and she is a green card holder so she cannot vote in November. I ask her, in any event, what she is thinking about the upcoming elections and she answers, in a slow clear voice:
“I really hope that Kamala doesn’t win.” …
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