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Feb 17, 2021
Mega, grew up in Newburg, NY, lives in Manhattan, comes regularly to Bushwick where he panhandles at Eastern Parkway and Bushwick Avenue. He explains: Manhattan is racist, he can't panhandle there. No one bothers him in Brooklyn. He was with National Guard, USAF. He adds: He has had multiple encounters with Evergreen Cemetery's Hermit, which he describes as brown with big hairy legs, part jinn and part human, and lightning agile. Hermit appears to him every five years.
