In Ventnor City I am Lindsey-Becky-Lil Bit sitting with Shay, Big Niece, Little Niece, Phoenix and Other Women Whose Real Names I Never Learned
Travel writing from the Jersey Shore, August of 2020.
“Lindsey! Get over here.”
Not my name, but I’ll answer to it. I’m a tourist in Ventnor City and maybe, here, I am Lindsey and I just don’t know it yet?
I leave my lonesome picnic bench and approach the table of five women.
The owner of the voice who called out “Lindsey!” offers me a shot of vodka.
I look around the otherwise quiet table and take the tempe…
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