Outermost Writing from Cape Cod

Outermost Writing from Cape Cod

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Outermost Writing from Cape Cod
Kindness

Kindness

it arrived unexpectedly

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Chris Ellsasser
Feb 14, 2025
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Earth-tone beads set with a single white flower, patterned and strung with an elastic band knotted into a bracelet. Snug but loose enough to leave no mark.

It did not come in a hinged wooden box or wrapped in paper with a bow. It arrived unexpectedly, like a patch of blue sky on a gray winter afternoon.

There was no occasion. Nothing had started or ended.…

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