Memoir Journal Issue 9
“Jimmy was staying overnight. Dad had picked us up after the freezing high school football game. At first, Mom’s cocoa was too hot to drink, but it cooled off while Jimmy and I took turns guessing a girl’s name. We fell asleep eventually on the army cots Mom had set up in my room.”
-From “For Almost a Year, I Stopped Everything” by Paul Dickey
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