Inside a finished book · No. 047
"Our Jo" · 84 pages · 47 contributors · hardcover
Chapter II · the middle years
Eight hours,
for soup.
When I was fifteen and home sick with the flu, you drove all the way from Raleigh with the chicken soup Grandma used to make. You never told me you did that. Dad told me — twelve years later, the night he dropped me off at college. He said, "She'll do that kind of thing without telling you. You should know."
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Raleigh, March 2001
Driving home in the snow.
The only photo we have of that day.
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