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at the edges the way they did before they fell. A mockingbird was doing what mockingbirds do in Savannah in the spring, which is to say everything at once, asserting itself loudly against anyone else’s claim to the morning.

I stood at the window for a while with my coffee, watching the tree, listening to the bird, feeling the weight of the house behind continue reading …