by Erin Conlon Getting a good spot for the Fourth of July fireworks in the neighborhood is no small feat, and a couple of neighbors happened to be lucky enough to feel them, too, if Craigslist Missed Connections are any indication (and, in an unprecedented Missed Connection moment, one poster even got a name).
Is your name Lizzie and were your firework-watching plans almost thwarted by an umbrella? If so, your beer-chugging knight in aluminum armor (similarly almost…
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