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Month: February 2018

Posted on February 4, 2018February 4, 2018

Drive

Look at that, my friend’s wife (who is also my friend) said from the driver’s seat.

I looked around and didn’t see anything in the grey-blue light of dusk.

It’s light, she said.  It’s 5:30 in the evening and there’s light.

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We – Mark Hannam, Vero Rousseau, Matt Boutte, and me, Peter Freilinger – write about the process and experience of being human, with a focus on the unique role of places and history in our lives in a world that seems determined to erase all traces of either.

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