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March Of The Penguins

By Eric Adelson

Friday, April 10, 2009

The red-bearded man limped around the locker room that spring, and the kid kept thinking, He looks so old. The kid was right. The bearded man did look old. His eyes seemed half asleep, folded away under his brow. His sweaty, strawberry hair matted to the top of his wrinkled forehead like moss on a wet beach. The veins in his neck strained just underneath his skin, as if they were about to snap and let his large head fall to his shoulders. Flecks of gray dotted his beard, which was unwieldy and m ...

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