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Praying

A hundred-dollar bill, lemon cookies and a Wink soda, J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey

A backyard barbecue, a Portuguese man-of-war, a game of croquet

A black Labrador, the Beatles, skinny-dipping

Early-onset Alzheimer’s, a nonmonogamous relationship, an upright piano

A roulette wheel, fraudulent tax returns, a Marilyn Monroe impersonator

A Brussels-sprouts cannery, the Kinsey Institute, singing telegrams

A loud snap reminiscent of ice cubes cracking in a glass, waiting arms, a broken hammock

Spaghetti sauce; scars, but no fresh cuts; a missed nap

A big, fat zip-lock bag of white powder; Crohn’s disease, a pair of turquoise earrings

Without cancer, from an overdose, to the truth of a marriage

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