Learning to ride, falling down, getting back on
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Richard Duggin, the author of two novels, teaches at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His stories have appeared in Playboy, North Atlantic Review, and Crosscurrents.
When I was twenty years old, I had the opportunity to witness the cremation of a human body. It was springtime in Virginia, when the air is laced with the fragrance of magnolia and cherry, and I was still young enough to think of death as merely a normal rite of passage.