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Just call me Thornton Wilder

So I walk into the room where I’m about to get a flu shot, and a perfectly pleasant nurse smiles.

“I know you,” she says. “You’re the Our Town guy.”

Before I figure out how to respond to that, she corrects herself.

But you know, I’ve been called worse.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "The Slice." Read all stories from this blog