HEY GORILLAS!
By Natalie Elder | Photography by Garth Phoebus
I’m Natalie. Some of you may know me as “The Man on the Street,” but don’t let the mustache fool you. I’m actually a woman and, yes, you can find me—usually being followed by a man with a large and obtrusive camera— on the streets of Frederick County.
My editor asked me to hit the concrete jungle and shake it up with Frederick residents by asking topical questions and getting candid answers from the Gorillas in our midst. (I get props for that pun!)
So please, my fellow knuckle-dragging, chest-beating Fredericktonians, tell me anything and everything you have to hurl. I’m here to find out what’s on your mind and go public with it—and, of course, to monkey around a little at your expense, when possible.
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