Where's My Wallet

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Location: Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex, Roxbury Crossing, Massachusetts 02120, United States

Jessie Yang

You realize you've lost your wallet at some point between last night and now. You were at a party last night, so you start your search at the host's, Claire's, apartment, on Columbus next to Ruggles Station.

Tourist Family

you go to meet with anne for her lunch break but you get stopped by a family of tourists who want to go to Tatte

Hi hello wait excuse me? Hi! We’re sorry to bother you but you look like a local…. This is our first time here -- isn’t it so beautiful? We’re from Montana and we’re not used to all these people around everywhere haha -- anyways we really wanna try a local coffee place -- we read about Tatte on yelp? Can you walk with us to the closest one? Oh hey by the way, we’re here to visit colleges with our daughter, Sarah --- Sarah! Come say hello! Sorry, she’s shy, we’ve homeschooled her her whole life and she’s not the most social haha. Hey, you’re not in school are you? What was your essay on? Sorry, is that too nosey? Oh any advice you have would be such a big help. These days you can never start preparing too early you know, Sarah’s a sophomore already and this is our first round of college visits! All of my friends’ kids have their first drafts done already we feel so behind. Anyways, she’s wanted to go to Harvard her whole life and we think she has a good shot!

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Hunter

What is UP, brah? After spending so much time grinding in the lab, figured I’d come out and flex on all the amateurs in the real world too. Gotta work on the brains and the brawn, cha feel? Speaking of which, I’m glad you’re here, not because it’s you necessarily, but more because I need to tell somebody about how sick this new app I’m working on is. I’m gonna be real with you, there’s no way that Apple can reject this one just because they didn’t take the last four. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary, am I right?? Pretty sure that’s a Wayne Gretzky quote. Anyway, I’m working on this thing that will monitor how long you’ve slept for, and then once you’ve gotten the bare minimum, it wakes you up in order to maximize productivity. How do you expect to succeed if you’re not awake to do it?? Sleep when you’re dead, bro. There is no off-season. Oh yeah, what did you want again? Right, I know I beat all your asses in wallet-tag, but I don’t have it. Anne was helping clean up afterwards, so maybe she snagged it. Obviously, Kim and Adam were playing too so it can’t hurt to ask them. Regardless, I can feel my heartbeat slowing back down so I gotta get back to it. Good luck!

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Matt

guitar music in the background Yooooo what are you doing all the way out here? Yeah, no, not too sure about your wallet but hey did you hear about my band’s concert next week? It will be our biggest event yet and I think this one is really it! It’s been publicized a lot and all the promotion and commercials have been all over the social medias. I really think this will be our big break, and I can finally quit my job at Goldman Sachs.

Oh, also, have you heard the new Rex Orange County album? You know, the guiTAR on that album is just so good and the chord progressions are something I’ve never even heard before! He’s so creative and honestly? a revolutionary of our time. Sometimes I wonder… if I grew up in a more creative environment or, like, my parents wanted me to pursue music, I could have made it big one day. I really wanted to go to music school and learn about production, but I got stuck in comp sci and programming because I thought I’d be able to transition out of it. But, like, I just lost the time to focus on music… like, my band in high school was really up and coming back then but it all kind of fell apart in college. This new band now—you know, Brian and Ryan and other Ryan?—we all meld so well together and I think we have something special!

Are you free next week for the concert? And if you want to get a sneak peek, you can buy our EP? I’ll even give you a discount! [pause] Oh right, no wallet, yeah... I’m not sure where it is. I know you were hanging with Anne last night, and I think she’s by the state house for a workshop or something. I really hope you find it, though! And if you ever want to hang out again, you know where to find me!! See you soon!! If I’m lucky….

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Anne

Oh hi! Didn’t expect to see you here, did you come by for the talk? God, I’m excited we’re doing this, it’ll be so good for raising awareness and helping people find resources. And Jameela Jamil is actually pretty authentic and cool. She was too tall for the mike and she just took her heels off and did her speech without them. We’re taking a break now but feel free to hang out until we start again! (quietly) Oh and last night..was so weird but actually a lot of fun! I haven’t danced that much in a long time. This is my third cup of coffee and I have to stay awake for like four more hours but as soon as this ends I’m going sleep as much as possible.

You lost your wallet? I remember cleaning up a little, but my stuff got very mixed up with Hunter’s…. Super nice guy! Very friendly… haha yeah...Anywayyyy, try talking to him. He’s at Rockspot in South Boston. But now I have go back! Duty calls! Ciao!

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Janice

Oh hi! Don’t you love this place? It’s so cute. Makes me feel happy. I come here, like, every day and drink coffee. The owners are a cute couple. I asked them why a coffee shop and they said they just wanted to make good food for good people. Don’t you just love that? Oh your wallet? Uh...no, I left it with Claire, did you check THERE? (overdramatic and in a tired and complaining tone) Ok, well, actually, I have to rush to my chapter meeting now. Sorry! Bye!

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Kim

Oat Milk Cappuccino? Oh hi! how are you? I’ve been here since 5AM it was so rough getting up this morning. The beautiful thing is that not that many people are up that early on the weekend. A Monday morning–those are actually the worst. I’ll be standing for like 12 hours straight and on top of that people are grumpier and in a rush. Actually [pause] I was going to take my break soon. Mind if I sit with you or did you want this to-go? Wanna split a muffin? This is funny. Reminds me of that date that wasn’t a date that we went on. Sorry that I was weird after. I totally ghosted you and you were pretty clear that you wanted to be friends. Consider this blueberry muffin an apology. They’re pretty good even though we don’t make them here. I want them to start selling more tea. I’m a huge tea person. Anyway oh your wallet? Oh my God I forgot about that. I think Janice found one yesterday. Don’t worry, she doesn’t hate you. She liked that you complimented her lipstick haha. She lives close to you if you want to go back to Mission Hill? I would text her but she’s doing a technology cleanse today. She’s probably reading at Solid Ground Cafe on Huntington right now. You know Anne was really cool. Are you going to the talk she was meditating today? Soooo cool that Jameela Jamil is going. I love her. You should check it out. Janice will be around later. Oh, and before you go! I think Matt is into you. He’s trying to sell his band’s music at the record store next to Paradise Rock Club all day. I bet he’d serenade you if you asked! ;)

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Adam

Oh hey, nice to see you. Crazy night last night, huh? I just had frisbee practice; I almost didn’t get up this morning because I had such a bad headache, but I’m glad I came, it was a good workout. Hunter invited me to go climbing with him, but I’m more into real sports. Dude thinks he’s tough because he’s a student athlete. Sorry to hear about your wallet. I’m not totally sure, but maybe try Claire’s apartment. Aren’t you two good friends? And, hey, I was talking to Janice last night and I’m pretty sure she lives near you, so maybe she took it? She’s always at the coffee shop in Mission Hill…Solid Ground or something?

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Claire

Ohmygod hello! Back so soon? last night was craaaaaaaazzy! I didn’t know like half of the people that showed up, but I made a lot of friends. Danced so much. It was good! Thank you for getting me through another year around the sun.
My mom called me this morning. Can you believe she remembered my birthday this year? Honestly, it was kinda nice. She sounds like she’s doing better. Now I’m going to spend the rest of the day cleaning and reflecting, trying to get ready for a new era, you know? 22! We are still wee chikadees finding our way thorugh this crazy world. So many more experiences to come. Things to live! And we will get it together soon. It will all come together right? Haha God my life about as messy as my apartment right now. But uhhh Oh, your wallet? You lost your wallet!!! I mean, my place is trashed as you can see but you can look around if you want. I found my phone in the sofa but I didn’t see your wallet … Wait, weren’t you playing that weird game last night? “wallet-tag?” I still don’t know what that means, but I know it was you, Adam, Kim, and Hunter playing. Maybe one of them has it? Kim works at that bagel place by Copley [4], Adam has practice at the frisbee fields in the Fens [2], and Hunter spends all of his time climbing [3] at that place near the Broadway T stop: Rockspot. Maybe go and ask one of them? Good luck, I hope you find it!

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