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Since Christmas is close the crowd in the bus won’t be seeing a decline any time soon. Whatever that may be I love riding the bus and I guess it will always remain my second favorite mode of passage. I removed the phone from silent and opened my messages.
Me: am in the bus. Will reach soon!
I smiled at the message I sent Anna. In another 5 minutes I will reach Brooklyn hill Avenue where my sister lived with her husband and two kids. I usually visited her every once in a while but I couldn’t make a stop this month but we met at home in Chicago so she shouldn’t be that mad.
I know I should be working on Mr. Dominic but today is a Sunday and I need a break from my stressful morning. And I will still have 24 hours after today.
Also I needed to collect the pencil stands I had asked her to make for me. The five colors that won were going to get some pretty simple handmade pencil stands. Anna
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