Night notes from Bogotá
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1:05 a.m. Bogota.
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The landlord gave me until Friday. It was Wednesday night and I had four hundred thousand pesos in a shoebox and a rent of nine hundred. I had sold the headphones…
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12:40 a.m. Bogota.
19:38
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The message comes at eleven: leave the door unlocked. Do not wait by the door. I read it four times. Then I get up and turn the latch and stand with my hand on it,…
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11:52 p.m. Bogota.
24:02
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The corridor on the fifth floor has one light and it buzzes. I know this because I stood under it for twelve minutes and counted the buzzes the way I count things at…
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2:20 a.m. Bogota.
18:00
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He is still saying the number when I say yes. I do not even hear the end of it. Something about the price, something about the hour, and I am already nodding, already…
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1:30 a.m. Bogota.
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I work nights, which means I know what time it is without looking. It is a habit that has made me good at my job and bad at everything else. So when I saw the little red…
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3:15 a.m. Bogota.
19:38
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12:58 a.m. Bogota.
24:02
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Three weeks. I did not write to him once, which is a kind of writing, if you think about it. I looked at the number. I opened the conversation and read the last message,…
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4:02 a.m. Bogota.
18:00
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The file is forty one minutes long and I have watched it maybe thirty times. I know where the good parts are. I know that at eleven minutes and twenty seconds the light…
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