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Im Augenblick

Sunday morning.  The phone next to our bed rings at 7:16.  The ringer’s turned off.  I normally sleep through a downstairs ring but I pick up. Ace, who left for work at 6:45, informs me that he just got rear-ended … Continue reading

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Memorial Day

In the quarter quell of the WWI draft, my grandfather voluntarily took the place of another man.  The man, barely known to my Faf, had a wife and young child.  Faf shipped off to the battlefields of Europe in his … Continue reading

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