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DISPATCH: This’ll Have to Do (Scaffold at KGB)

DISPATCH: This’ll Have to Do (Scaffold at KGB)

That’s when the night pivoted. The screamers and smirkers had their moment, and then the quiet burned hotter.

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It was 90 degrees and I was loitering outside KGB Bar with two guys who didn’t know each other, and only barely knew what they’d walked into. One didn’t know the scene at all. He knew me before I eve…

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