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You could barely breathe in the heat. To decide to walk was to invite sweat so prodigious it looked as if someone had thrown a bucket of water over you.
Around us were containers. Unprepossessing shipping containers that made up a public forum called The Bullpen in a recently regenerated area called Navy Yard. It wasn’t the most welcoming name for a meeting of like minds. Of people from a myriad of different creeds and colours and backgrounds and races and languages.
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