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Lou Who (I)

This is the first chapter of a story I've been working on for the past month and a half that I wrote mostly for my amusement and I'd like to know your thoughts on it. The story this chapter is from is called "Lou Who" and I hope you like it.     I've been alive for nine thousand, four hundred ninety-nine days and nine thousand, four hundred one of them can be described as mundane, typical, average and any other synonym for "meh." It wasn't until two and a half months ago that life as I knew it would then be described as surreal, freaky, nearly impossible and any other synonym for "what the fuck?!". I figure that's a good enough starting point as any for my story so I'll begin there.     People here in Nassau County, New York call me Lou. I work as a telemarketer during daylight hours, peddling the most inane shit to people that yell at me over the phone, things like phones shaped like penises, a microwave programmed to blurt o