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“The Grey Christh”

“What? You don’t like shopping all day, having dinner at the Waves, going to a ht services at church?” She pushed the daer on his face

“I’d rather eat my own boots”

“I thought you’d want to helpfor Noah”

“I made hie” He s time”

“What’s a dreamcatcher?”

“Indian thing You hang it over your bed and it keeps the bad dreams away”

She touched his bare, daliest of his scars It was an oblong-shaped pucker with pink edges “Okay, Mr Raintree, because I love you, I’ to tell my sisters you’re sick today, but to to Dad’s So if this is soet one day off”

“It’s no trick”

She leaned down and kissed hierms and viruses and all “I love you, Dal”

“I love you, too”

She reached over for Noah and picked hied his diaper and put hireen flannel shirt, OshKosh overalls, and his coat Then she went back to Dallas, put a cool, wet rag on his forehead, and kissed hioodbye

The following entle rise from the horizon

Rolling over, she faced her husband She hadn’t known before that your whole world could sometimes be found in another person’s face, that creases could seee

She leaned closer, pressed her naked body to his in the way she’d done so ainst his lips