 Occasionally the boy will ask why they come here, to this exact stretch of sand, every day. She’ll say, “just because” or “isn’t it beautiful” or “why do you think?” But she is really just waiting for her lover, the man, the father who named this as the spot to which he’d return. So, the boy plays and she watches the waves…
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 image credit: m. r. vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 She thought she had something that set her apart. Still thinks so. But landing here with these...average stiffs? So disorienting. Especially considering the places she'd been shown in her heyday...
 image credit: E. R. Vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 Of course, she couldn't possibly remember that kiss, at that age, from that man, could she?
 image credit: m. r. vian, free use license under CC BY 4.0 Yesterday he didn't know the difference between a coffin and a casket. He remembered Pa's motto: "Don't need nothin' more'n a pine box." Ma was fancier, but maybe the secondhand casket was a step too far. And he really needed a bigger truck....
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