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Second Daughter – 09/28/20

…and it seems like so many years, but maybe just four or so, that out in the garden when her daddy, who she loved so well…she a little hurt, but surprisingly she accepted, after a while, after she learned the word “mommy”, after she had learned, “dada”, her first real word, and always said with so much joy, so much…love…and affection…yes, that was it, and now after even two more little feet ran around the floor…yet, still seems like so many years ago, but also just yesterday…for the sun was bright, the shade of the tree, the smell of dirt and water lovingly placed….yes, that was her man…and the smell and sight of things growing…destined for their table together…the meal prepared dutifully, always a work to her, but perhaps that was love… But out to the garden she brought Teresa and stood her up and her daddy stretched out his arms, as he did to her in bed, and Teresa took her first steps, five of them, almost to her daddy, and well, if not to her, then to the man she loved…

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