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What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Chickens
Offered
Bones
Cold
Someone
Humiliating
Wondered
Chicken

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