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Birthdays

A waxed floor, a box of chocolates, a first bra

Investigating conscientious-objector status, attending a rock festival, plucking strychnine tufts from a bag full of peyote buttons

A three-thousand-pound slab, a pair of sunglasses and a book, a sprouting of wings

Tetris, freebase, house plants

A huge beach umbrella, a Methodist church parking lot, a fire hydrant

Picture days in grade school, summers on fire lookouts, Saturday afternoons at the movies

A repressed memory, a custody battle, a summer on the prairies

A single bed, a jail cell, a green sofa

Having a room of one’s own, eating compulsively, scribbling

Sharing C rations, picking up where you left off, stealing forbidden knowledge

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