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Today’s Ingredients:
A bit of loneliness tea
A drop of far away violins
A mite of unopened mail from the War Department
A speck of unfulfilled dreams
A splash of Unfinished chores
A taste of empty days
A crumb of messages that won’t be answered
A smidgen of footsteps
a trace of roses
a shred of sleepless nights
Directions to stir with 1940s music and to serve warm, with tears.
"Two young lovers set off from St. Louis for Oregon. Only he survives."
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She kept a diary tucked in flour sacks; he carved stars into the wagon yoke. At Scottsbluff, grief found him, when a Rattler found her arm. In Oregon, marigolds open, and her memory blooms again, in a place they dreamed of, and that will never allow him to forget her.
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