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a canopy of string lights, grinning. Vanessa laughing with her hand flat against his chest. A tiered cake behind them, tall and white and absurd.
And my son, three miles away, asleep with tear-streaked lashes, had gotten a broken car out of a box that had once held someone’s garage clutter.
I raised the toy over my head and I threw it.
It hit the concrete continue reading …
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