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Spontaneous Loss

From the December 2024 Print Edition

Those early weeks, you could have been anyone,   Too young for fingerprints, much less a name,And years away from our first catch-and-toss—   A little flesh and blood, no brain, no bone,     No one to blame.You did not count, you were not even close. We do . . . . Continue Reading »