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@vihilum​​ confessed: 08. a peek inside their WALLET & 26. a peek inside their MOST USED PLAYLIST.

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WALLET — a black leather bifold. long and thin. simple and sleek. he always gravitates towards a similar piece whenever the previous one succumbs to the wear and tear of use. this one is likely already cracking along its outer crease, but only enough to be noticed by the owner himself. the contents inside are fairly run-of-the mill : a Bank of America checkbook. a debit and credit card to match. a small black ballpoint pen. cash tucked into the opposite pocket, just to keep on hand ( some singles and fives and a pair of twenties ). Anthem Blue Cross and Medicare insurance cards. a New York state driver’s license that expired in ‘72, tucked behind a Maine state driver’s license that expired in 2014, tucked behind yet another Maine state ID, this one recently renewed ---  even despite the dramatic age difference in all the photos, those doe eyes never stop sparkling through the years. a half-spent gift card for his favorite ice cream shop on the mainland. a Portland, Maine public library card. a couple crinkled receipts that he has yet to log in his check register. a United States passport, first issued in 1959 and adorned over the decades with stamps from Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Russia, Israel and Syria. he also holds onto his expired original passport, from his family’s immigration, as a keepsake. finally, there’s the St. Christopher / St. Michael visor clip he kept from his NYC cab driving days, slipped over the pocket where he keeps his cash.

perhaps most importantly, he always keeps two photos on hand: 

     the first is his favorite family portrait of the Pruitt-Rossi clan --- his mother, his father, all of his sisters ( including Alice ), and himself at barely 3 years old. taken just before their emigration from Tuscany. the sepia photograph is obviously aged, but has been tended to by careful hands, so that the portrait’s visibility remains in-tact.

     the second? verse-dependent. in his Far Cry verse it’s a candid photo of his wife, Sarah Pruitt ( née Harper ) and their baby boy, Sigur, when he was but a few years old. the both of them smiling wide and mounted on the back of Sarah’s mare, Mara. a moment of sweet reprieve and domestic bliss, captured somewhere in the Whitetail Mountains before the Reaping. in the verses of his main timeline ( and just about every other verse ), it’s a candid of Missus Mildred Gunning which he too shot himself. Millie is joyfully looking down at her ( their ) three-week-old daughter Sarah, just after her Baptism, with happy tears brimming in her eyes. John managed to keep himself together that day, allowing his own tears to flow at last in the privacy of the rectory.

MOST USED PLAYLIST VINYLS — he has a difficult time picking a favorite vinyl if you ask him outright. but you can easily identify the few he plays the most by the spines of their sleeves, the cardboard softening and the color washed away from the corrosion that comes with flipping them open, over and over. his favored picks include:

Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours

John Denver’s Poems, Prayers, and Promises

Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Willy and the Poor Boys

Neil Diamond’s Tap Root Manuscript

Jim Croce’s You Don’t Mess Around With Jim

Don McLean’s American Pie

Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book

Johnny Cash’s I Walk the Line

Marty Robbins’s Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Simon & Garfunkel’s Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Dolly Parton’s Jolene