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Someone left their snow shovel by my mailbox during the storm. I cleared my walk. I left it for the next person.
The corner store where we bought penny candy. The owner kept count in his head. We never cheated him. He never doubted us.
A cold breeze on a hot porch.
The summer my mom took us camping by herself after my dad left. She didn't know how. We figured it out together.
Watching the bread rise.
My professor stayed late to explain it again. I don't think I was the one she was really staying for.
The lilacs by the back door are blooming. Whole yard smells like my grandmother.
My partner did the dishes even though it was my turn. I had a bad day.
Walking to school in fog so thick I couldn't see my own feet. I was eight. I wasn't afraid. I was thrilled.
My dog Pippa used to wait at the bus stop with me every morning. She has been gone fifteen years and I still look for her there.
My great-aunt's apartment in the Bronx. Plastic on the couches. Pictures of strangers on the wall. The same one of me at four.
New journal. First page. Pen that works.