The old man lumbers into the café behind me, with a sweat-stained shirt and a cowboy hat, his worn boots clacking across the old black and white tile. He sits in a faded red booth and opens up the plastic covered menu that hides behind the ketchup and mustard bottles. In a gleaming silver trailer [...]
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You know me. I’m the one with a collection of mismatched suitcases and a collection of keys belonging to nothing I own. I’ve given away or lost so many things yet I still feel restless, as if there’s something I forgot to take leave of along the way — something that might be taken away [...]
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The other day at Starbucks I had an unexpected conversation with a stranger. Afterward, I wanted to run home and tell my partner all about the beautiful, older woman who had just finished a meeting with her husband’s younger side dish. I had the same urgent feeling of wanting to share earlier this month, when [...]
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