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Hidden Hope Revealed

Monday, October 9th, 2000

It was like finding something, a postcard, a clipping, placed in the pages of a book that you have been reading for days on end and holding so close in your hands and eyes peering across and into it.
He held the slip in his gaze by turning it on its corner and leaning it against his upturned thumb where it twisted back and forth on axis by the force of his light breath.
It sat there revealing not its origins or whereabouts and activities for the past several days, only now it was part of the place and part of all the conscious decisions to be made surrounding the book.
To stop here, to dogear that, to prefer one side as marker over the other… What will the slip do when I have left, and when I have finished the book?

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Long Lost Brothers

Friday, September 22nd, 2000

Pepione, a dark smiling mutt, looking like a big version of my small greying friend Winn, only his gait was trotty and frisky, but heavy, and he carried himself confidently like a portly man in deck shoes with no socks his stout hopping legs leading green khaki shorts above his knees held up by a brown braided leather belt wrapped over a tucked in printed polo shirt. I remember the day he came to the farm and trotted under the house I saw his black frame for an instant. He was too confident for a large man and too peppy with his skinny disguise and we could all see through it. So we called him ‘Big Winn’.

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