I Taught My Son to Ride and Three Weeks Later I Had to Bury His Helmet

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re-wired, re-built. Same year and model as the bike my father had taught me on and I had taught Caleb on. Same maroon paint. Same black leather seat. Same spoked wheels, polished by hand.

It was not the same bike. The one my father gave me was in the barn behind our old house, rusting in the spot where I had left it after the accident that killed Caleb’s continue reading …

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