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Asbestos Hands My job is simple. I take the dishes, line them up, rinse them off, slide them into the machine, hold the go button for six seconds, and set up the next batch. On the weekends another employee dries the dishes and puts them away. Afternoons and on weekdays, I manage that myself, as the machine cycles. The dishes, they come out razor hot. After a month or so, you get used to it. "Todo es más fácil con los manos del asbesto ," Felix, he got me the job, always says. This is a good ...

My childhood best friend was a neighborhood kid, Greg Seraphin. He lived five houses down the road, but the back of his property ran up to the back of ours. His parents spoke polish to each other, but English mostly when I was around. Greg was a year older, I was an inch taller. My sisters called him Greg Downstreet, never knowing his last name. Our neighborhood was not too far from the city, most of the people we lived around moved from the city. A cornfield and a dense woods bordered the cl...