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Garth Risk Hallberg is contributing editor for The Millions. He is the author of A Field Guide to the North American Family. His stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, New York Magazine, Slate, Canteen, Best New American Voices 2008, and Best of the Web 2008. He lives in Brooklyn.
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You don’t know what you just have done to me. Another time waster!!! I thought I was kicking some butt, but got killed by the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, and on my last life I threw myself off the train.