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Pomes

The conversation went like this. We were walking back from lunch, and I noticed the grass getting long (and remembered how ours needs cutting). I said to Ken: “So, have you cut your grass yet?” It turns out he hasn’t … Continue reading

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21

Twenty years ago today, Gabrielle turned one, and the weather was exactly like today: sunny, breezy, and unseasonably warm (77°F, as we speak). We had a picnic on the grass in front of our apartment building on 40th Place. I won’t … Continue reading

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Birthday

Laura’s 51st. Her first as a cancer—what? survivor, I guess (better than “victim” or “patient” or “battler” …). Postlumpectomy, prechemotherapy. At the threshold of a long ordeal.

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