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Weddings

Unplanned pregnancies, justices of the peace, sans shoes

Three beloved cats, one sand-painting ceremony, four pairs of blue-shag sandals

A drawing of a tugboat, an A&W root-beer stand, a C-minus mother

A cottage on a lake, Little League, a gray-and-white tract home

The space race, cotton picking, a magician

For love, life, laughter

A silver bookmark, the Milky Way, college-prep courses

About sexual disease, about adoption, about fidelity

Gossip, a sense of community, a surfeit of characters

Hiking the Appalachian Trail, shoplifting, feeling grateful for being alive in this world of difficult beauty

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