February 03, 2001

The guy has parked his van along the side of the road and set up his merchandise on the sidewalk and the cinderblock wall next to it.  He's got rugs and banners and statuary and these adorable little dolls, each about two feet high.  They're dressed in overalls and have backwards baseball caps and lean against the wall, hiding their eyes against folded arms, like they're counting for a game of Hide and Seek.

Except he's got about a dozen of them lined up, and it looks like nothing so much as a mass arrest down at the playground.

 



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