"Knives talk. Everyone out there on the street understands that language."
She tells her story for one reason. Joan says that if we know a little more about them, perhaps we'll understand that those figures shuffling about are actually real people.
These days, everywhere you look, there are signs on cars that read: "Go Suns."
On her shopping cart, Joan has placed the following printed message:
"I am a stranger in a strange land.
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