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"It's a shame really, it happens all the time." Red and blue lights twirled om the air. Jesus, it's like the 94th precinct's parking lot, all these squad cars, all these rotating cones of blue and red dancing around the block. They left an imprint of the growing crowd against the usually empty corner and with every sweep you could see more people approaching the scene. By instinct the paper cup I was holding jingled in my hand with what few spare coins I had. Look at those coats, must be nice to have something like that in November.

"Man that was my dude, Ahmed ain't do nothing wrong yo." A crowd had trouble preventing the large man from passing through "Who did this? On momma we gonna roll up on the fuck that did this." The large man and his crew were giving the DO NOT CROSS tape a run for it's money as they attempted to survey the scene. The ruckus caused PD to act and force the men away but Ahmed's 24/7 "MAGIC MOTHER DELI CORP" was a hub here in this part of town.

The change in my cup kept making noise as I made my rounds. with every passing being I felt the weight of more and more pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters - maybe even a golden dollar, swish around the beat up container. The heft had started to punch out the bottom of the paper purse. I was done for the moment.

"I wonder how his family is going to react?" a white couple - a woman in tears in her man's embrace, both in pajamas, in this weather? "Change?"

"We're sorry, we left everything upstairs. the noise startled us."

"It's not a problem, it happens all the time. You get used to it."

My breath danced in the air. disappeared into the sky. We're dragons is what I would tell my daughter. There's another store two blocks away. Maybe this one will stay.

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That's just off the top of my head, not sure how it came out