She is no stranger to Hometown.
She lived here for a time before she got married and went out on tour.
She apparently worked as a bartender at some pub inland from the waterfront and the main drag.
It is unclear if this was while she still attended college in New York City, although clearly after her teaching gig upstate.
Hometown is very convenient for people seeking to further their careers in the big apple, a mere train or ferry away, and yet far cheaper than Manhattan rents, yet still allowing someone to feel they are part of the urban mix.
Since I worked out of the Hometown office back then, we might well have passed each other on the street. While I would have taken notice of her, I would not have remembered it a decade later when she took up a job with us.
She knew the social scene, while I spent almost no time in the pick up and fuck bars Hometown was famous for.
This knowledge of the scene – even a decade later – might make her quite useful to those power seeking to get R elected mayor, and they may well make full use of her talents for getting other people to do what she wants.
Since she left our office nearly six months ago, she is not nearly as useful to R as A is – since A actually worked the Hometown beat and brings to the lection fresher influence over the male owner, who apparently used A the way he did our poet, while paying both starvation wages in exchange for their favors.
What use R puts our poet to will likely involve the bar scene and socializing with people R needs for the election—although I would not put it passed R’s thugs to use other, harsher means of persuasion to get our owner to give R’s ticket better coverage.
GA, the Hometown blogger, believes we will see a very dirty election, and I agree with her, suspecting our poet will play a prominent role in it.
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