When we remember that we forgot.
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excerpt:
“We were a block or so from our hotel,
holding hands like a couple of teenagers,
when we saw the dark, lumpy shape,”
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Rounded, but not yet a ball.
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As I walked through the park
on a Sunday afternoon
a young girl started to stare at me