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I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at my mother's funeral.

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Travel writing for travel times - Currently in Vienna

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A little late ☺️

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living

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"Xcor saw his father killed when he was but five years past his transition. "

He really believed it was a madcap game. A joke. A dare, played out between old friends.

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""Hey, girl."

My wig slumps on my desk where I have tossed it like flattened roadkill.

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"I hear the doorbell. "

"He is cross-legged on the floor of the public library, deep in cookery, holding a book of old recipes, gripping it tight, his tears tapping out the code of how lost he is on its sun-bleached cover "

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"The windows of my house tremble from the power of the thunder rolling across the skies."