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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC

@hoppingfun.bsky.social
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One of those creative types: Word-y, geek-y, game-y (oh wait). I've created games, stories, media, books, jazzy content for oodles of clients for decades. Come see: hoppingfun.com

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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Censorship by the numbers! "The ALA tracked 713 incidents challenging 4,235 unique titles in 2025. The Authors Guild helped overturn book bans in 5 states, returning books to more than 7.5 million students." @authorsguild.org #censorship @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek
Infographics about censorship of books, including who challenges them, where challenges happen, trends, and other data
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Authors, readers, people who love stories, it's BANNED BOOKS WEEK (thru Oct 11) Events, news, resources, merch, and media assets to help spread the word are all right here: bannedbooksweek.org #bannedbooks #bookbanning #freedomtoread #reading #books
Bright pink, blue, orange cartoon of animals reading books to promote "Let Books Be" banner advertising Banned Books Week Oct 4-10. 2026, with the slogal "protect the freedom to read"
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As a teen/20s, I was gifted tickets to opera by my cousin Jane, who covered cultural events for the New Yorker but also paid for own season tickets for many decades. NYC friends, jump in on this FREE offer, if opera is new to you, and see if your heart soars: www.metopera.org/app/opera-fo...
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Very COOL poster, 7 to 70 years old Really hoping this final chapter of this decadal documentary series is playing in NYC theaters this fall.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC friends, FREE opera tickets (via lottery, app) for residents who'd haven't gone in a long while, or ever. A chance to explore what this costumed, emotional, highly musical and lyrical, centuries-old storytelling art form is all about. At the MET opera house! www.metopera.org/app/opera-fo...
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fly, Canada geese, fly! But, please come back when the "winter" is over. Signed, a Michigander (cartoon by Brendan Loper) @newyorker.com here: www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a62088
Birds in v-formation flying over Paris with Eiffel Tower and the Seine riverbank in foreground. black and white
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That "grow-a-thon" poster above the clock, a series of school pics, was featured in an Owl installation on the playa and came from the first magazine I ever edited, SuperScience. He's the son of a favorite teacher/mentor, Linda Froschauer, and put himself out there.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pierre Damas Bel: “I came to this country... to study, to build my future and to live a better [life,] not to be treated like a criminal." He did nothing wrong. He did everything right, and, in fact, excelled—top scholar, athlete, neuroscientist-in-training, JROTC. 💔 #abolishice #immigration
Woman in a blue sundress and white hat holds a protest sign over her head that reads "Unshackle Springfield."
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE is now throwing out tens of thousands of "babies" for every ounce of "bathwater." The United States grows stronger when we welcome and boost honest, hard-working people who are willing to do what it takes to support themselves and their families. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Chart of ICE arrests since Trump took office shows a tiny fraction of those with "violent convictions" remains steady while arrests of innocent immigrants are soaring. The innocents include those married to US citizens, green card applicants with open cases, asylum seekers with open cases, DACA dreamers, former TPS refugees who've suddenly been declared unwelcome after years and sometimes decades of building a new life in the USA. Gift link to the article in the post.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh nooo! A truly great human being who made the world a better place for all of us. A Dollywood hologram projects her message of love and the museum there tells her rags to riches story in song, words, photos, and mementos.
Dolly Parton hologram, wearing a blue dress with scarf hemline, rhinestones (of course), lace bodice, blue high-heeled sandals.Sepia photograph of Dolly Parton as a child with writings from her diaries, journals, and schoolwork on display in a museum exhibit at Dollywood.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My evening's entertainment, little errant lambs from the sheep ranch across the road, grazing on what not. They were respondent to my voice, but cautious, so we carried on a call-response conversation, backs to each other, as I trimmed grape vines and shrubs.
Two tiny white lambs graze in a field of wildflowers, prominent in queen anne's lace.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The "first and final" response to a FOIA says only 9 pages (10%) of drawings were released (4 of them coloring book pages). ICE credibility is shattered, so kudos to @muellershewrote.com for going after the rest. #dilley #ice #immigrants
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Ibelin documentary is on Netflix. World of Warcraft, his chosen game community, embraced Mats so warmly that many players who had never met him IRL mourned him after his death. That, and the profound impact on the parents, who he "proved wrong" by creating this rich, connected life on his own.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Unseen in this introductory photo and video are the 20-30 people who gathered around the little community tables to talk and brainstorm.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There's Tim again, with Amit from @igdanyc.bsky.social, who's organizing another Gamapalooza—an even bigger indie game showcase in #nyc slated for mid-October. You can learn more about it by following the Discord: discord.gg/Ft8vjgg7V #NYMakesGames
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
At #g4c2026, Tim Rattray @timrattray.bsky.social and Kevin Hoskin filmed talks for their documentary about the NYC game scene, Playing in the Shadows of Skyscrapers. Tim also threw a fun afterparty! Bonus: I met the SON of a coworker from the dawn of my career, now a game audio/music creator.
Wearing promotional t-shirts for their film Playing in the Shadows of Skyscrapers, Kevin Hoskin and Tim Rattray film a talk while an attendee with bright pink nails and a bejeweled wedding ring set snaps a photo (foreground).
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
MORAL PANIC slide from #g4c2026 (Rachel Kowert) Writing: "We will cease to exercise our memory" Phone: "Constant distraction" Crossword: "Literate women" Film: "Debauchery" Comics: "Demon worship" Video Games: "Murder simulators" (Who remembers the Satanic panic?)
Timeline with graphics of 6 inventions, from written language to video gaes, that triggered a Moral Panic.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I call this photo "Panel" (it was an excellent panel: "How Are Games Getting Funded in 2026?")
Six people sitting on sofas and chairs on a bare stage with "Games for Change 2026 Festival" projected overhead.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I can read one of these graffiti. (Spotted in NYC subway station, July 22, 2026))
Garbage can with various stickers and graffiti scribbles and a block letter, white-on-black stencil that says "Piss on a Tesla," I'm guessing from the onslaught of Doge earlier this year.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Games for Change! A boost for the soul and mind to hang with people making a positive difference in the world. In an inspirational twist, David Gagnon jump-started a lively discussion around the maverick idea of creating a public media model for games—like Sesame Street did in the 1960s. #g4c2026
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
GAMES FOR CHANGE! It's time. Opening party (tonight), then 2 days of talks, panels, workshops, awards, and a game arcade like no other. This festival has ONE MISSION: Let's make games that make a difference! I'm a well pub'd writer, game designer for hire. #g4c2026 #seriousgames #gbl #g4c
Flower-girl-like founder of Hopping Fun Creations (hoppingfun.com) featured on a light green banner for Games for Change Festival, July 21-22 in NYC.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I had a blast—minor league baseball aims to entertain! The Cyclones struggled with pitching in game one but made a contest out of it in game two. Meanwhile, fans walked their dogs on the field, giant hot dogs ran races, kids vied for prizes, the Surf Squad cheered, and mascots did what mascots do.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Get the joke? Lefty the Clown, entertaining the crowd at the Brooklyn Cyclones double header today.
Lefty the Clown, who is actually right-handed, carries a super-sized glove on his left hand and wears big, blue oversized sneakers (the color of the Brooklyn Cyclones). Pinstriped uniform, number 3 5/8.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Street drama: Baby falcon drops to the sidewalk, chirping and hopping. New Yorkers jump into action: phoning animal rescue, documenting, fending off security guard who asked everyone to "move out!" One woman put down a capful of water, another offered pieces of muffin. #nyc
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Fashion photography workshop (free) at B&H Photo, feeding on soccer fever. We just stumbled on it. An I love ❤️ New York moment.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The 7 Train to Grand Central Station, from Long Island City, has become my new commute while I house sit in NYC. I must have passed this 5-story mural a dozen times before it finally smacked me in the face.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Usually held on the first Wednesday of the month, the NYC Indie Game Dev Social is free to attend but books up fast! Sign up here to be notified of the locale and date of upcoming events: buttondown.com/nycindiegames General info here: jesshaskins.notion.site/NYC-Indie-Ga...
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
NYC Indie Game Dev Social! SRO turnout last night with lively conversations lingering till midnight between friends, new and old who love to make games. It's a can't-miss event any time I'm in New York City. Hosted by @jesshaskins.bsky.social for more than a decade. #gamedev #nyc #NYMakesGames
Scott Price (left) and host Jess Haskins (center) sit and listen intently at a bar table while a third man, standing, looks on. West 25th Street is visible through the window in the background.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Riding the 7 train to Times Sq, I felt confident that the Yankees were playing the Pirates. (not)
An elderly couple endures an underground commute but makes it known who they are and what they stand for by their attire: She, in fashionable black-rimmed glasses and and orange jacket with green wirly skirt. Both, i orange tennies, and he with a Pittsburgh pirate hat and uniform and sunglasses.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I loved, loved, loved two glorious days of tall ship majesty along the East River, then Hudson. Pounded aurally right now by explosions downriver, no way to escape it. #tbh
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Italy wins "Most Beautiful Ship" in the #sail4th parade. The sailors are neatly lined up on the rigging, standing there for at least a couple hours. #july4th #nyc
Three-masted tall ship with a navy blue and white striped hull and Italian flag. A few of the smaller sails are unfurled. New Jersey shoreline in the background.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I couldn't get a good pic (too far away), but Angelique caught my eye because red sails. "It was common in England to treat sails to make the cotton canvas more resistant to mildew with tallow, tannic acid, and red ocher." #tallships #america250 #sail4th
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
First ship in the flotilla! They skirted the Manhattan shore, so the mini "tall" ships looked a little smaller than I'd hoped.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Messi fever! Canine and human forms, on the Greenpoint Esplanade. #worldcup #fifa #argentina #messi
A woman in a light blue summer outfit and her little black dog, dressed in a Messi jersey, pause before a man who is also wearing a Messi jersey as he sits on a chalky bench and checks his phone.Small black dog on a leash wears a Messi jersey along the Greenpoint, Brooklyn esplanade.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
July 3, Preview to the #sail4th flotilla, happening practically outside my door!! East River preview cruise from 1-4 pm, viewable along the public Esplanade. (that's the pre-view preview, with a workhorse barge in the fore, from a few nights ago)
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Super rare to meet someone with the same last name as me. Samantha at the Flop House Comedy Club just married into the clan and even got a rabbit tattoo. Fun set tonight!
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
In the 2026 keynote, Meredith compares birthing a baby (she's having a second child late in life) and birthing a game. I'm not a parent, so, no comment. What's key here, to me, is the search for truth—and that truth can be distorted. You have to "burn a path thru the fog" to find it. #narrascope
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The "Bad Future" part of his talk includes a "perceived sense of efficiency," over-investment, the anxiety of a "black box" (we don't know exactly how LLMs and their billions of nodes operate)... and more. (quote from an anonymous Anthropic employee) Clear presentation. Worth a listen. #ai
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I think this applies to ALL collaborators, especially the "respect expertise" note. As with music and audio, game writing and narrative design are skilled disciplines in an art form and craft and that's what NarraScope is all about. Let's add game editing to that, too. (More on that talk later.)
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This Tempo and Pacing slide, for ex., helps me enter the sound sphere realm creatively and more deeply. I love super-practical craft talks because video games and digital narratives are always a team effort (for me). The more I know, the better I can relate to and communicate with others.
Text slide explaining how Tempo and Pacing in music correspond to narrative in video games. Slow/Fast or Sudden/Gradual
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A key #NarraScope takeaway: generations of creatives keep on creating, innovating, and playing—no matter what. I thrive on that vibe and so do many, many others. This toddler (4?) spent an hour playing in the fountain pool outside the lecture hall doors, turning everything into a toy, with joy.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
NarraScope 2026 in Albany! A somewhat pivotal experience for me with surprising new connections, meaty conversations, and an emerging perspective on what I want to do with the homestretch of my career. I'll follow up with fave talks after they're posted on the IFTF YouTube channel. #narrascope
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I took some snaps at the Level Up Tuesday! This FREE event features an expert talk (in this case, how to strategically tackle the super-tough game job market). With lots of time to socialize, I met two up and coming music/audio talents and other devs and designers + IGDA friends and regulars.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Awwwww, arriving in I was welcomed to NYC on the subway by 16 wide-eyed little furballs in two carriers: "Fancy cats" going to their forever homes! #nyc
A gray tiger kitten pops out of a carrier while two others look on.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
30-ish people at the opening night gathering of NarraScope! With two full days of talks ahead of us. In Albany and online. #narrascope @iftechfoundation.org
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Global Radiance! Captured in a composite satellite image. From @nautil.us magazine #earth #planetearth nautil.us/new-nasa-gra...
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Data plot of mouse brain that goes well beyond the x-y-z plot.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
What do the collectivity of neurons firing look like, structurally, in real time? 3D
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"It's newsreel film. It shows us winning the war." "But we didn't win the war." "That's what they told us." The Man in the High Castle (based on Philip K Dick alternative WWII history sci-fi) is now on Netflix. Excellent, and timely, too. 1962 Hugo winner is adapted, deepened, in brilliant ways.
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Good! They hauled this innocent man out in polar temps in his slippers and shorts. They had the wrong guy.
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