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Passing Strangers

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Passing Strangers: A woman's haunted by the backbeat of a former lover

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Ben Wakeman
May 26, 2025
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Hi Friends,
This is the first piece in an ongoing weekly series of brief character sketches I plan to publish. I’m fascinated by the interior dramas happening all around me, all the time, wherever I go. If love can be defined as the act of seeing another, you might think of Passing Strangers as a collection of love letters from me to all the people I’ve …

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