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Shovel 8 | Aug 23 2002

Whatever it was, I was supposed to not only know what it was but be doing it, because apparently everyone else knew and was doing it—he was aware of that and accepted it and anyway that wasn’t the point. The point was, how often and to what degree.

Honestly I had no idea what he was talking about, but given the tenor of the conversation, which I can only characterize as manly and “on-the-level,” it seemed best to nod in agreement whenever agreement seemed called for, rather than claim innocence and risk being thought an idiot or liar or perhaps both.

This then is how I came to admit that I periodically stole from him, the same as everyone, using the obvious method, whatever it was, although in moderation.