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A letter from MaeWashington, United States

The wrong turn home.

I took the wrong exit on the way home from work and found the little lake I used to visit after school. I had not been there in nineteen years. The parking meter was new. The ducks seemed much the same.

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A letter from MinaMinnesota, United States

The first pancake.

Every Sunday, my father ate the first pancake. It was usually pale on one side and burned on the other. He claimed to prefer it.

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