Friessmas 2005: Steven @ 33
For my 33rd birthday, Miles took me to brunch
with Walt and Terry at Anthem,
then I curled up with Ann Patchett's amazing memoir, "Truth
& Beauty," at Starbucks for a bit. Later,
I visited with my little brother and then had a delightful dinner
at the SW Steakhouse with my partner.
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Terry at brunch at Anthem.
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Walt looks perturbed (left)
and then happy (right)
at my Friessmas brunch.
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Yes I am:
Me at the Homo Monument in
Amsterdam in 2003.
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I met Farij, an Iranian,
on a flight from Beijing to
Seoul in May 2003 as I was en route to Sydney. For an
hour,
we chatted via written notes -- he understood written
English --
and enjoyed the sort of cultural exchange you can only
have abroad, that between an American Jew and a Sunni
Iranian. He was about to spend a year in South Korea
painting houses as some sort of work-abroad program the
Iranians do. I had been collecting foreign currencies
and
asked for something small from him, which he gave me but
he refused to accept my U.S. I fished around for something
to give him and eventually figured it out: I had a pin
on my bag that read: "Teach Peace."
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