DANIEL BLUE: MEET ORLANDO MCCRAY >>>

Welcome to Orlando McCray. 

Orlando is the sort of person who sneers intentionally in your direction because he knows you know that is how he expresses his love. For the first couple of years that I knew Orlando he would speak in a normal voice only 50 percent of the time, the other half was a strange sort of Grover/Muppet falsetto, which made me feel at ease. 

A drummer in the band called Don't Tell Sophie, and a frontman in his electronic music project, Physics, Orlando is a Dear Records poster boy. 

On the Foursquare court he is known as "Black Magic" because he plays with rules that no one knows. You have to respect a guy who learns the game so quickly; I almost lost an eye one night when he put such a wicked English on that ball it toppled me like a Jenga.

Sometimes he is nice, and sometimes he is cold as ice, but Orlando is an incredible artist, a creative dresser and a master of facial expressions at every occasion. 

Sometimes I wonder what I'm going to do, but Orlando always knows exactly what to do. I fear that in a man, but you should find it attractive.

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