I first heard this term from a friend named R.
I lost touch with R. once I was evicted from The Abode of the Message, in June of 2018. We were never super-close but I liked him and considered him a friend and comrade.
R. was a leftist and a Christian. I knew him from Ridgewood, Queens, where we were both members of a leftist community space called Woodbine
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