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Issue No. 7 QUESTIONS

For the Questions issue we are turning our focus from the outside world and bringing it inward. Each day for 100 days we will step out into the world and meet with one person. We will ask each person we meet the same 12 questions. At the end of 100 days we hope to capture our collective voice within this interwoven web of dialog.

Day 38: Kenneth Aleman

What do you do for a living?

I work security and the front desk at a residential building. 

What do you do to feel alive?

Bake

A lesson you learned from your mother:

Don’t be too nice because people will walk all over you.

A lesson you learned from your father:

Don’t cheat on my wife because divorces are too expensive.

What’s the most beautiful thing you saw today?

There was this little girl that came into the building with her dad and when she said “Thank you” to me for opening the door she said it in English, French and Spanish.

What’s one thing you wouldn’t want anyone to take away from you?

The ability to express myself

What’s a thought you would like to never have again?

My ex

If you could become an inanimate object what would it be?

An oven

When do you feel most loved?

When I go home to my dog

If your life were to end tomorrow what would be left undone?

Finishing the Spartan Race and opening my own restaurant

What global issue would you take on if you didn’t have to worry about how?

Religious tolerance

What’s the scariest thing that ever happened to you?

The car accident when I flipped my car and embedded into a concrete post