Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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Jen Deaderick
Apr 27, 2021
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I ran into my ex-boyfriend. I was driving near his house, on the way to a bookstore, when suddenly there he was walking up a hill toward me. I didn’t recognize him at first, his hair has grown long and shaggy. He was carrying palm fronds, and that’s how I knew it was him. He was coming from church.

I was stopped at a light, he was walking along the far s…

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