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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Chapter 7. The Green Card Holder.