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    Holding the Line

    May 30, 2024 2 minutes

    Not the weathered French doors that still beckoned to the Pacific. Not the wave-battered wicker chair still airing out from the last storm. The cracks. I couldn’t take my eyes off the cracks that fractured the concrete patio like an ice sheet on

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