Tag: memories
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God of Advantage
MY BROTHER TOOK GIRLS THERE before me, two or three a week, and I’d wait up to watch him return with them through the woods, trying to spot his flashlight like tracking a reflection in a puddle of oil. He’d meet me on the roof and tell me everything, all about the girl and what…
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In Loving Memory
Reading Riverside Park’s Benches On a meditative walk through Riverside Park, I came to the realization that a lot of people are dead. I was reading the small metal plaques that commemorate various West Side characters, performing a zigzag maneuver to examine each label on the facing benches. I felt the weight of the tributes…