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You rub your glasses with your fingers, and of course it's someone else's brother, narrower across the shoulders than yours but with the same sad slouch, the grin that does not hide the stubbornness, the sad refusal to give in to rain, to the hours wasted waiting, to the knowledge that somewhere ahead a man is waiting who will say, "No, we're not hiring today," for any reason he wants. You love your brother, now suddenly you can hardly stand the love flooding you for your brother, who's not beside you or behind or ahead because he's home trying to sleep off a miserable night shift at Cadillac so he can get up before noon to study his German. Works eight hours a night so he can sing Wagner, the opera you hate most, the worst music ever invented. How long has it been since you told him you loved him, held his wide shoulders, opened your eyes wide and said those words, and maybe kissed his cheek? You've never done something so simple, so obvious, not because you're too young or too dumb, not because you're jealous or even mean or incapable of crying in the presence of another man, no, just because you don't know what work is. The Waitress at the Waffle Shop Irene Sedeora Like a country singer her voice twangs and the scent of breakfast infuses the air. With her prattle she pours coffee as cursorily as she mixed Bloody Marys at Nicks, the last place she worked. In a voice full of grit the waitress at the Waffle Shop calls order to the cook, then scatters her life to the pair perched at the counter. Last week I moved up here to have a life. But I miss the beaches. Im thirty-nine and I never got married. Its just me and my dog. 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