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by Peter Selgin
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Once, back in the days when I caved in to the novelty like everyone else, I encountered a young lady in a recently opened Starbuck's. She took the stool next to mine, opened her blank book, wrote a line or two in her screenplay, then turned to me and said, "Thank God for Starbuck's."

I said, "Why?'

"It's the only place where I can get some privacy."

I almost asked her whether she had a bedroom. But that would have been prying. Instead, she went on about her privacy, how important it was to her.

I believed her.

I believed it was so important I moved two stools down.

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