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Marlene Tibbets had run the books for Tibbets Auto & Diesel out of a converted mudroom off her kitchen
The chill of late November crept through the thin panes of the Vermont farmhouse, carrying the scent
I hear that sentence more than I hear my own name. "But I don't even eat much."
The Gold Star mother at the memorial in San Antonio didn't cry. That was the thing Lauren Blackwell
The screen door had not stopped slamming when Whitney began her morning march. I was in the kitchen of
Maggie O’Connor drove into Lincoln with a manila folder on the passenger seat and her son’s dog tags
The night they came for Del Cole, he was writing on the blackboard in the mess hall with a piece of chalk
Nathan Kessler drove a forklift for Whitmore Freight & Storage in Toledo, Ohio, for twenty-two years
Marcus Whitfield left three thousand dollars on the kitchen table the morning he told his coworkers he
Delia Crane was forty-one years old when her younger sister called from Austin to demand, not ask, that









