| The Fourth of July: a conversation
"Was that a gunshot?"
"No way."
"I'm sure it was a gunshot."
"It was just a firecracker."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Guns don't sound like that. They're more of a pop. That was a boom."
"Sounded like a gun to me."
"Well it wasn't."
[Pause]
"How about that?"
"Oh, that was definitely a gun."
(July 3, 2007)
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