SextantHutch11

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Forty-Two Dollars a Month

I've paid for a storage unit for three years and never opened it. Inside is a box of candied almonds from her wedding. Today a new kid asked me how to tie a line.

by SextantHutch11 · 1mo · 3.6k warm reactions

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The Quarter That Covered Fourteen Cents

A young soldier was short at the register. The man behind him paid. I thought of my own boy, still overseas.

by SextantHutch11 · 1mo · 12.2k warm reactions