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No Contact: Closing Time
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Conversation Partner
by Ross Showalter
“I think someone I know is dead,” I tell the ASL interpreter after the shift ends, when we are about to go our separate ways for separate bus rides home. “We haven’t spoken in a while. I bought a Ouija board because I want to talk with him.”