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In three days, nine hours and 30 minutes. I’ll walk out the office door, and all of a sudden, I won’t be managing editor any more. I ought to be sad, or sentimental, or drunk and weeping. But mostly. I’m dazed: It all happened so fast. See, I came out to San Francisco with my friends Paulo and Dave, and I didn’t really have a job, and Paulo came home one afternoon with this ad for freelance writers, from this paper called the Bay Guardian... and what the hell, I dug the last copies of 11am-6pm daily all my old Hartford Courant clips out of the bottom of a paper bag, free to the public smoothed them out as best I could and typed up a few story ideas on the typewriter I’d bought a year earlier 5903 Christie ave with $50 I borrowed from my mother.