Sawbuck Short Story

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As a small child, he had always eaten jelly doughnuts for breakfast. Now, however, at a plump and rather easily winded 29. He has switched over to granola and skim milk. Along with his new eating habits, his looks are also beginning to change. He wears his hair a bit longer in back and thinner on top and his shoes are those flip-flop kind. That are good for lower back pain. He thinks about this as he sits gazing out at the backyard, which the neighbor kid with the nose ring mows every Saturday for a sawbuck. He wonders if the kid knows that a sawbuck is a slang term for 10 dollars. Maybe his younger brother Kevin is right in his appraisal, maybe he is old-fashioned and far,far out of step. They had just gone out with their parents the night