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Emma,
What I remember is Matt at 4 and Kate at 2 climbing up those little stairs they placed outside the nursery for siblings to see the new little one at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua. They were so excited and they were so cute, and you were so beautiful.
And then you were in your Mom’s room, and they were sharing a chair, and you were so little and so beautiful.
Godma

Heath Hen Meadow, Acton. Feburary, 2001.
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E.D. In Coma

In her mind, in bare feet
she is walking among

April’s first
cold
pubic violets, still

here, heaven haunted
her eyes

and lips
closed:
Soon

so soon I’ll be a part
of all that I
now merely
see

Franz Wright

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Emmaís birthday cake, her matching tee shirt, and a must see

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Emma’s actual birthday was a week ago, but we had this second celebration with her family, Flo and Susan.

Flo and I napped on the drive home.

Somewhere in France. 1981.
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Cheryl, Diane, and Wayne Mellin
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Bonnie and Greg Downing. Saco River, 1981.
Oh, and Diane in the stern which means she is steering?
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Emma’s room

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In response to rakkity’s crotchety comment: those hidden bays and forlorn islands are still there, we just hid from them. The outside was grey, cold and windy. I know, in our youth… .