for my mother, who always responds within minutes to c.'s laboriously hunt-and-pecked, bellowing additions to their ongoing email correspondence (DEAR MISS COLLEEN, COULD YOU PLEASE BRING MR. GEORGE OVER TO MY HOUSE? FROM C.)

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for the farmers' market: for the apple cider doughnuts, for the blushing freckled skin of the sekel pears i bought for roo's dinner, and for the sight of a little girl who looked exactly like the one from robert mccloskey's blueberries for sal. 

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for audra, who says soothing things to me about my unruly mess of a haircut.