2 Quotes by Gary Floyd

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    A couple of dozen backpackers stand, inside the lower deck’s muted light, like an army of extraterrestrials. Paros is refilling with English, German, French, Italian, Scandinavian, Australian, and South African tourists.

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  • Author Gary Floyd
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    Saturday: the bill is debated. That morning, the union fills the viewingarea. Some people get in. I don’t. I stand outside holding a placard someone else wrote. Some people in suits, who work for the people who run this town, aredisdainful. We take their seats in the public viewing area. They think, “Whydon’t you go home?

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