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He sat with his wife’s photo, waiting for a son who had already boarded without him

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his safe harbor in a stormy sea.


The first time he forgot where he was, I was sixteen years old. I found him standing in the driveway in his slippers, clutching a watering can. It was February. There was snow everywhere, blanketing the manicured lawn.

He thought he was back in Alabama, tending to the roses with Grandma before she passed continue reading …

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