It's taken a long time to write this one. Reads a little like Catcher in the Rye meets The Year of Living Dangerously...getting accidentally swept up in a leftist riot in Panama as a grade-school kid left its mark. Innocence was lost when that first whiff of tear gas hit me in first grade in 1958...See how novels are inspired:
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