Jay Deitcher Wrote About Grieving The Closure of Hooters
For TIME, Jay Deitcher wrote about how “mourning Hooters really is about mourning the friendships cultivated there.”
Jay told Study Hall, “I somehow managed to sneak the sentence “In a gaggle of goyim, I was the crew’s Jewish jester, their mascot” into a Time piece. One of my greatest accomplishments.”
Jay writes, “I love my life, love my wife and my little sidekicks, but my happiness is laced with a nostalgia for a youth I can never return to. I am constantly mourning, the way every 40-something mourns. The wings today are just as good as yesterday; it’s our lives that have changed.”
Jay’s writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, BBC, HuffPost, and Vox.
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