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The young cop says, “Sorry ma’am, you’ll have to wait.” In the strobing red-blue glare he looks like a teenager. Melissa wonders if Tony had looked so young when he started, all those years ago.
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Time ran in a direction it never ran before and then he said, "The building fell out of the sky."
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...even unbelieving prayer
muttered with quiet resigned breaths
can not foretell or forestall stains...
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Benton showed her his old room, a shrine of old posters and records. But it had been cleaned out, made to look like a guest room. “Kiss me,” Benton said. “April.” “That was just a name, so don't get any…
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After he got on one knee, and she said, I do. After they watched the televised bombs disappear the city. After everyone fell asleep. After shock and awe, him and her making love…
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I looked at her, shook my head and tried to smile. She smiled back, beaming a radiance that pushed away the chill.
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