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The Cart by Gene Bray

March 18, 2024January 23, 2024 literallystories2014

In the 90’s, I was a crackhead, pushing a United States Postal cart all over Midtown South Manhattan. Me and 100 or so other guys. We worked 120 hour weeks. We worked till we dropped. And we slept where we fell. 

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