Category: In Transit
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Loneliness, a beginning
He travelled a long way to get here. Ten thousand miles on a cargo ship. He was twenty years old. He waved goodbye to his mother and his friends on the dock.
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The Next in Paradise
I would give anything to be met at the airport by my brother. I would get off the plane looking for a tall figure waiting at the gate, a man in his fifties now.
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Notes for ‘A Million Miles Away in Fishkill’
New York City is never more than a three-hour drive away but in towns like Colonie and Cohoes and Coxsackie (gotta love the name) it might as well be a million miles…
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I’ll be on my way
The autopsy showed he had taken enough barbiturates to kill himself three times over. He wanted to make sure this time. The first time had not been successful.
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Astonishing possible reunion at the center of the universe
He was always speeding. Racing time. I was the little boy sitting next to him.
Mary Saves the Day 