“Goodbye, Everything”

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She saw me swimming in the full tide from the living room window.  The sun was going down and she had her pajamas on.  When one is three years old, bedtime on a summer’s night often looks like daytime.

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3rd of July

It is the 3rd of July. The three day Battle of Gettysburg ended on this day in 1863 with 40,000 dead, a victory for the Union forces and the turning point in the United States Civil War. President Lincoln, four … Read the rest