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They Set Out in Fog

by Carole S. Oles
Issue #30
Spring 1983
They’re determined to have fun. The boy’s 14 today. He’s chosen this trip North to where they lived a life before him. There’s the attic in the gray Victorian where pigeons nested until the cooing wasn’t cute. Where the husband...

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