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The Photographs That Came Home for Thanksgiving
After a spring fire took 46 years of family photo albums, Marlene dreads Thanksgiving in a rented duplex. Then her family arrives carrying envelopes.
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The Notebooks in Dad's Nightstand
After Harlan's stroke, his daughter finds the notebooks where he wrote down the small things his wife Dot did every day, and reads them aloud at his bedside.
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The Metal Detector That Keeps Finding My Knee
A retired grandpa takes up metal detecting and finds bottle caps, his mother-in-law's lost spoon, and one beep he can't escape. A gentle story to share.
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