"Hey there. Want some coffee? This place across the street, just behind me, has good coffee. We can go over there and chat the morning away.
Just let me stand here for another minute looking cool and composed. Standing here ... leaning against ... a trash can?"
You think this guy would have chosen something else to lean on if he'd known his picture was going to appear on the internet seven decades later?
Or was this one of those photographs he really didn't want to take, but someone on the other side of the camera insisted?
We'll never know, the moment was swallowed up by those shadows and time.
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