Goines On: Shaving thoughts

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For the several-hundredth time, while Goines was shaving, he thought of one of the three white ladies to whom he had been a colored maid, à la the 2011 film The Help. 2011 was the year two of the white ladies entered his life, after UNC’s Office of the President was shaken up by the retirement of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and his replacement took his place, bringing along from her previous gig the assistant who had done her bidding there and would continue to do it at UNC, while supervising Goines.