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He held a cloth mask in his hands, and he fiddled with the mask's strings, as if they were worry beads.

And he fidgets more and more with the worry beads he carries all the time in this pandemic year.

Konstantinos Varelas twisted a string of blue komboloi — Greek worry beads — outside his family’s restaurant on Main Street in El Monte.

It is then that people reach for the worry beads.

The beauty of Cohen’s music, the power of his lyrics, the complexity of his character, the Greek worry beads he carried in his pocket even when he looked incredibly calm and composed – “Darling,” he would say, “I was born in a suit.”