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OR: fantastic niches and where to find them

We need D&D Group Conveners, Last-Minute Babysitters, People Who Write Articles Online Explaining The Confusing Endings of Certain Movies, A Cappella Concert Attendees, Wikipedia Editors, Phone Fixers, Local Historians, Post-Tragedy Casserole Providers, Yelp Reviewers, Field Trip Chaperones, and on and on, forever. (I once shared this insight with my wife, thinking it was a revelation, and she patiently explained that she had understood this from a young age because she had read many novels about love, while I had been watching TV shows about cars that can turn into robots.) He had arrived in the US five years earlier and he didn’t have citizenship yet, so Dominico Pizzoferrato duly indicated on the form that he was “an alien.” Then, clearly unsatisfied with his options and wanting to explain himself better, he drew a line and wrote another word: “friendly.”

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