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He Waved Goodbye
William H. (not Henry) Mann died in February of 1995. He would have been 72 if he’d lived until April. I was 45 in April of that year and my daughter Amy was 22, a second-year law student in North Carolina. My husband Tom and I had been married seven years. That was 16 years…
She Wore a Lapis Lazuli Necklace
Long, strong legs and arms, tan and storkily elegant, high heels, an exotic orange, yellow and blue scarf tied as a headband across her forehead, clamping down an unruly goldenbrown mane, thickly noncompliant. Brassy ear hoops, chunks of ethnic somethings in a necklace or two, blue Nordic eyes, coral lipstick. Swooping through the curves on…
An Extraordinary Act of Love
He refused medical treatment, knowing that the cancer growing at the back of his tongue, in his throat, would kill him. No one could say how long he would live (six months, as it turned out). None of us would say, not in full sentences anyway, the effect the cancer would have (… narrowed airway…