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Memory Eternal

Pull up a chair. Twenty-five years ago I left home in Issaquah, Washington, headed for my office in Lower Queen Anne. Ordinary morning. Work day. The kind you…

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Apple’s Garden

Pull up a chair. A few months after we moved into this place, a little black dog showed up outside the fence. I was at work. Herself called…

•5 min read