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Bunch of sketches here, folks, but first, a story. The lady and I have been throwing away my stuff. I mean, we’ve been making room for… no, that’s not it… a better design has been decided upon in the nicest bedroom in all of Allapattah. As a result of this, some of my old unloved and abandoned stuff must be thrown out.

So today I threw out my father’s 34 year old suitcase; bought in Spain after escaping Cuba, he purchased the mustard leather thing for his trip to America. I also tossed an old leather travel bag, which had another bag inside of it, also leather, belonging to an ex girlfriend. I discarded an empty box for an old scanner. There was also a bowling ball holder sorta looking bag. It actually had an old broken Seiko watch in it, which I left to give people hope. I also tossed an old dead comforter. The sort of thing so old it is now pretty much a sheet.

Three Allapattahns passed by and all three of them stopped to take something. One lady and her little boy on a tricycle took the black bag and upon finding the other hidden bag inside, tossed the surprise in front of the pool hall next door. One man, who seemed on HIS WAY SOMEWHERE, fell in love with the green comforter, stopped, SMILED, picked it up, forgot he had somewhere to go, and went right back home. To snuggle, presumably. Last but not least, the old black Cuban in the cowboy hat eyed the pile suspiciously and continued on, only to return twenty minutes later and ask if it was ok to take what was left. His contest prizes? The giant Spain bag, the empty scanner box, and the bowling ball bag wannabe.

My dad said, “Times are tough. People need things.”

I said, “You were flying to America from Spain. You needed a place to put your things in. These people are picking my stuff out of the trash. They need a place to put their OTHER trash in.”

Allapattah livin’, day by day, baby.

And now, sketch a day catch up from July 9th through today, July 14th.

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