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Who Raises the Flag at Bell Prairie Elementary
For nineteen years a Vietnam veteran raised a school flag before the buses came. When he asked a friend to fill in, a fourth grader told him about the names.
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The Blue Plate at the End of the Table
Every Thanksgiving, Mama set one blue willow plate for whoever the Lord might send. The first year without her, someone rang the bell with a store-bought pie.
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The Great Pettibone Wedding Weather Debate
Married fifty-five years, Ruby and Harlan still can't agree whether it rained on their wedding day. A church anniversary toast was supposed to settle it.
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
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