GS-I continued from the uploaded story. The setup, characters, and fin…

aid. Three or four trips a year, a week or ten days each, right up until he retired in March of 2007.

That is the shape of it. Thirty-four years of a marriage with a hole cut into it so neatly that I never once put my hand through and felt the other side.

On Thursday, I went down to the cellar to find the box of Christmas things because I wanted to know continue reading …