On my morning walk sometimes round Echo Park Lake en route to the coffee shops, or afterwards to Lassens, a kind of Whole Foods store where I order my fresh organic green drink, I see an older man. He has a businessman look, white hair, looks focused , well dressed. He too walks each morning. We see one another often so nod hello. He is like an extra in my movie. For a few days I didn’t see him at all. Then I did. To my right on a sidewalk a little above the one that tightly rings the tiny lake, there he was, carrying his coffee. We nodded at one another and kept walking.
Minutes later to my left and half way round the lake, there he was again! Wait a minute! That is impossible! Holding his Styrofoam coffee cup, sitting and looking away from me. I waggled my head and blinked my eyes to straighten out my visions. He was definitely over there the other side of the lake. He turned his head, looked at me and nodded. He stood up and started walking in the other direction and I carried on. But I saw him. I saw him in both places!
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