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PJ cut hair. She was a middle-aged woman in bib overalls. Her shop, barely advertising itself as such (PJ’s For Men), was on Second Avenue. She was leery about taking new clients. She never did women. “Too much trouble.” She scored markings—eighths of an inch, like a ruler—onto the spine of her comb, so she could accurately measure the length [...]
SETTING: The time is the present. The location is a small, trendy Williamsburg retail establishment located a tasteful distance off Bedford Avenue, just across from P.S. 84. The legend on the door reads simply “leif” (for the benighted or initiates, the title appears to be a multi-valanced mixture of archaism [adv. OE gladly], urban slang [v. experience intensely], and Scandinavian [...]
