legal drinking age (21 lol)

[Celestial Bard]

This is about a phone book. I call it "The Ballad of Michael Smith"!!! xd

Michael Smith, just another in an endless line of Michaels, Smiths, and a silly combination of the two. The only unique thing about him was the ten numbers that followed his name, and three of those were consistent with everyone else. 954- 229-3493 was his number, one that made him feel like he was in a concentration camp, but it was the only unique thing about him, sitting on the yellow page in size 4 Arial font. He wished for something unique, like Maria Schechter, who he had met in a very strange instance of his page being folded into hers. A year passed before the new phone book came out, and Michael Smith was no longer Michael Smith. He got a legal name change, and was now Karl Katz. He was born anew, but still bore that number of pride: 954- 229- 3493.  

[serephemeral]

I really liked that, Jugglernaut! It was pretty short, but it worked. I would only say that, in the first line, "an endless line of Michaels, Smiths" would read better as "an endless line of 'Smith, Michael's".