Victor Kerlow Dear Diary:
I had just dropped off my young son at school and was using his empty stroller as a shopping cart, carefully negotiating the aisles at Fairway on the Upper West Side.
An elderly gentleman, who was walking by, bent to take a look in the stroller. He looked at the assorted groceries and, with a twinkle in his eye, said, “He doesn’t look at all like you!â€
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