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Writers, here’s how to eavesdrop – and why

Once, on Boston’s MBTA, I was standing in the aisle watching a young girl reflected in the window as she talked to friends. I didn’t know I was staring until she looked directly at me and said, “Yo, Sista – why don’t you take a pitcha?” Oops. For writers, eavesdropping is fabulous grist for theContinue Reading