The keeper and her friend have a ritual on the Friday after Thanksgiving where they visit the Episcopal Bookstore and then head downtown and join the strange throngs pushing through the streets and escalators. The sign carriers above would have been proud of them. They don't buy much, but they do eat, and marvel at the variety of humanity which all gathers together--Goth and Jesus Saves sign carriers, street folk and ladies who lunch, steel bands and a capella Gospel singers, babies in strollers and dogs in front packs, trinket sellers and mimes, street Santas and cops, all thrown together in a pulsing parade of God's creation. The piroushkys at the market were worth waiting for today.
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