In the presence of America's most beguiling depiction of loneliness, I reunite with the one faithful man who helped me survive the horrors of Washington D.C. -- fourteen years after we last met.

Drew Bratcher is the author of Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville

Location: Art Institute of Chicago

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