“There were things she never named, only folded like laundry too wrinkled to iron smooth. I grew up watching her close windows before the wind came. Grief, she believed, should never be given an open door. She never raised her voice, but the quiet she wore had weight. It pressed against the walls.”
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A Shelf of Things I Never Said
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