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To Go, Please!Writing by Zoe Duncan-DoroffI bet you don’t know anything about your baristas, the ones that work at the coffee shopright down the block from you. Well you probably know which one remembers your drinkand which one takes forever to knot up the single serving artisanal tea bags and which oneis still in school and which one you look forward to finding yourself slipping into flirtatiousconversation with. So how dirty are we making that chai latte today? Baristas are a hackneyedexample of commonly anonymous, you’re right, but thanks to a national caffeine dependencethey are a universally understood case of the human aversion to curiosity about lives that arenot your own (or lived by members of your own social circle). As you’re hustling out the doorsucking down your iced latte — racing against the biodegradable clock that governs the lifespanof your paper straw — I bet not much thought goes into who the people playing baristasare, why they exist the way they do and what unique indent on space and time their life hasmade so far. To be clear, I don’t blame this lack of awareness of the barista, the other, to be aconsequence of laziness or for some reason that is easily remediable. Instead, I consider mostof us to merely be ships in the night — completely unaware of the lives being battled, sufferedthrough, and enjoyed around us.3
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