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Chapter 2: Unravel
The Kamo Detachment
The aroma of lemongrass and fish sauce hung heavy in the air as I navigated the crowded tables of the Thai restaurant in Boston Park Plaza. 1982. Just a few months from graduation at Emerson, a shiny, uncertain future stretched ahead. I spotted him in a booth near the back.
“Andrew,” he said, rising to offer a stiff, formal handshake. He was a tall, wiry man, his face etched with the lines of a thousand depraved – probably feeling every bit the reprobate he let himself into; the mental battles – let’s call it that. Also, the unholy crusades for a full abstention from the regime he had campaigned for all his life and late-night cigarette smoke. We hadn't seen each other in years.
“Dad,” I replied, sliding into the booth. The silence that followed felt thick enough to choke on. We ordered, small talk filling the void; the weather, my studies, his latest protest against Reaganomics. The fact that we barely knew each other wound up in the usual dance around the elephant in the room, routine.
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