Oyster Days and Off-Season Ways
My mother's family came over from Jamaica in nineteen fifty-something, and I've told that story so many times I could do it in my sleep.
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My mother's family came over from Jamaica in nineteen fifty-something, and I've told that story so many times I could do it in my sleep.
I park the truck at the far end of the dirt lot and sit there a minute, watching myself in the mirror.
The rental office in Fairfield Hollow was supposed to be open until six.
My name is Bobbie, I'm fifty-two years old, and until three weeks ago I had never spent a night outside the Pacific Northwest.
The flight to Vienna got cancelled at two in the afternoon, and the board flipped Christine's whole trip home into a mess of gray letters.
I've planned forty-one weddings in my life, and I can tell you the exact moment this one stopped being just another job.
*I wanted a first date that didn't try so hard...
Thelma Laurence is thirty-four years old, Black, and she has her life exactly the way she wants it.
Nana Webb turned 41 on a Tuesday, and she remembered it because it was the day she stopped making excuses for herself.