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He did all of that himself at twenty, around thirty-one hours a week at a tyre centre, and he never once complained about it to me.
I asked him why, in the autumn of 2016, in the least graceful way possible, which is to say I asked him whether he was doing it to hurt his father.
And Julian said no.
And then he said: “I’m doing it because Grandma Nora had four laundromats and Dad had a suite number, and I know which one of those is real.”
He was twenty when he said that.
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