4:30pm.
“I’m in my circle, OK?!” She draws a semi-circle, fingers pointed to the ground. She is screaming. She is crying. She is hysterical. The Dominican leans against the stop sign, the bike is on the ground. The police are at their wit’s end.

She is certain the bike is hers. I was asked to come down and identify the young man as the thief. I looked at him and I couldn’t say that it was him. The officer said if I could, I would need to come to a lineup. I responded that unless every other man in the lineup was a Hasidic Jew, there was no way I could pick the guy out.

This did not make Luciana happy. Right about then is when she drew the circle. The Dominican was willing to SELL her back her bike for $60. She had no proof it was hers. It wasn’t pretty.

10pm.
The building begins to thin out as neighbors make their way out for the night.

12:24am.
Lincoln Road. Still tons of people. TONS of people.

1:08am.
On Collins, I see a hooker approaching me. She’s dressed well for the part.
“Hey baby,” and she is now walking with me arm in arm. I realize that, in fact, she is a hooker.
She tells me that she just moved here two weeks ago from California. That she spent the first five days in jail because of a big crackdown before Obama came to town.

“What part of California are you from,” I ask. I’m going to be turning onto 9th in a minute, getting on my scooter and leaving.
“Ontario,” she responds.
“Oh. Interesting.” I chuckle inside. (I later google Ontario, California and find out that it actually exists.)

She tells me it’s difficult to be a ho in Miami. I tell her that this is my turn, I wish her good luck.

1:45am.

“What time is it,” I ask the guy sitting across from me.
“2:45. Let me double-check. Wait, it’s 1:45.”

I go inside to work on photos.

2:17am.
“The best way to get over a man is to get under another one,” she says. Nice. I hadn’t heard that before.

4:40am.
Sleep. Finally. Sleep. Halloween 2009 comes to an end.

I’ve yet to put the photos from Halloween on my site, but I have made them available on Flickr. Slideshow of Halloween photos here.