I Heard My Uncle in the Hall Before I Saw What He’d Brought

to use the answers later.

“Watch how people handle small power,” he told me one afternoon while we fixed fence posts. “That’s the real thing.”

He wasn’t a big talker. So when he said something, it stayed.

When I moved into my own apartment in Richmond years later, he tucked a card into my glove compartment with his number written in block letters.

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