The Locket

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June/July 2020

It went missing when Mom died

- SUSAN BATTISTELLA

BOTH MY PARENTS HAD DIED IN the autumn, and every fall I felt melancholy. This day—one week after the anniversary of my mom’s death, 11 years earlier—I sat on the porch, missing her even more than usual.

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