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Looking for someone — Volunteer soup kitchen, Chicago, 2014

Volunteer soup kitchen, Chicago, United States Winter 2014, evening

Six months of Tuesdays. He did the worst job in the building, every week, and refused to be moved to serving. We talked about music mostly and he made a playlist for the kitchen that everyone complained about and secretly loved. He stopped coming in the spring and nobody had his details.

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Around around 25 at the time · male · On the washing-up every week, hated being thanked for it.

volunteer
community
music

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