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Ray Kowalski kept his hives out past the end of County Road 9, on forty acres that backed up to the Allegheny

My name is Donna, I'm fifty-eight, and I've run register three at the Harris Teeter on Elm

Marlene Cutshaw hadn't spoken to her father in eleven years when the letter showed up in her mailbox

Rosa María had been ironing other people's shirts for twenty years when her son Marco announced

I stripped our bed for the seventh time on a Tuesday morning in March before I let myself admit something

The mail carrier in Ossining still remembers the return address on that envelope: 14 Birchwood Lane

I stock the shelves at Fischer's Market off Route 9, and I've delivered groceries to the Whitfield

The band was still playing "At Last" when I walked into the reception hall to find my husband

I've kept the same brick ranch on Larkspur Court for forty-three years. Planted the maple out front

Nadine Ostrowski had run Ostrowski Auto & Body out of the same lot in Meriden, Connecticut for thirty-one years.