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Saturday was about to give way to the evening, but the afternoon heat was not about to release its hold over the city so easily, and as Low stood on the street with various other derelict characters milling about the boulevard in aimless distress he stared down the avenue and into the sea of traffic to look for a cab that would take him to the airport. Actually there is one thing that sets our hero apart from the other characters in this tawdry scene, and that is the state of his dress. Low had spent the better part of his morning thinking about the moment when he would have to leave the city, and of course, he was dressed exactly how he had imagined it. He was wearing his pink shirt, pointy shoes, and burgundy skinny tie with a green, vintage Fleetwing suitcase sitting beside him. The jeans that he was wearing had been purchased at the Gap only a few days earlier. Hours were spent parading up and down the strip of shops packed with out of towners and the down and outers. He eventually wound up in the change room with a stack of jeans that were not one bit near what he was looking for; which was an impossibly tight trouser that would be slung deep in the hip with denim that would cling tightly to his leg all the way to his ankles. Each rejected pair of jeans would be thrown over the top of the small cubicle at the back of the store in frustration at the franchises attempt at fulfilling his needs.

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