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Readers Write
Readers Write
Kindred Spirits
“Anchoring,” going to a secondhand store, watching the boys play pool
February 1989Readers Write
First Kiss
At church camp, in a air raid shelter in wartime England, on an old flatbed trailer
November 1988Readers Write
Signs And Symbols
The Alphabet Lady; a broad, black, shiny feather; a penny on the tip of the lion’s nose
October 1988Readers Write
Two Worlds
A left-hand turn; a dew-laced web; a piece of blue paper, folded once
September 1988Readers Write
A Letter Never Written
Adopting, reconnecting with an old friend, being AWOL in peacetime
June 1988
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