“No matter where you are in Chicago, you see Sears Tower. It looks like a
big black cock,” Chilyong said.
-Eugene Chang, Chicago Monologue
Wall’s parents, Tom and Norma, named him for the guy who wrote Ben Hur,
Lew Wallace. Lew was a Civil War general. Wall likes to jump off the deck
of his family’s house with an umbrella.
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attendant who says I’m too fat.”
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