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Going to Alexandria University back in the day and living off campus

sucked pretty horrifically.

There wasn't even a good 7-Eleven in town, and the bus lines stopped running at 9,

so if you didn't have your uncle's old

Ford Fiesta to cruise around in, you were walking everywhere.

In my junior year, I had to share an apartment on Walpole Road with a pair of perpetually

stoned twin brothers, who, from what I heard, wound up in a murder-suicide thing

years later, like the ending of Dead Ringers, that kind of craziness.

Anyway, one night I was poor and desperately wanting to be around normal people,

so took a drive past Defago Hall over on Marchdale Street to see what their 8 o'clock Tuesday presentation might be.

Defago Hall isn't around anymore, but it was a morose building where the university would try to hold local events the townspeople might be into.

Book signings, art films, lectures, and so forth. Six old people clinging

to the remnants of their college days would show up and applaud politely for whatever was given to

them. That night in 2018, a single sheet of paper was taped to the entrance, bearing four lines of typing in courier font.

I rolled down my window and leaned way out to read them.

They said this.

Tonight, January 28, 8 p.m.

Q&A with Vampire killer Hester Shell.

Open to the public.

Free coffee.

Well, I thought it was better than having to try to watch La Ventura or listen to someone

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