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  • My kids were exhausted after ice hockey practice and fell asleep on the stairs.

  • In the restaurant I wanted to make love to her, and I didn't know what to do; it overwhelmed me; I went out to the car to sit. I was very conscious of being naked under my clothes. Pete showed up and knocked at my window, scaring me. He was eating m&ms and grinning. The cashier had given them to him; he'd charmed her. He wanted to know why I was in the car and I couldn't tell him, couldn't say anything. I'd forgotten he would be meeting us here, and I knew I had to go back inside and sit at the table with her and pretend I was ok.

  • I snapped at Vicki and gave her corn on the cob to make up for it.

  • boys I went to high school with, jumping on a trampoline at the edge of the football field

  • writing in narrow columns on a dry-erase board

  • hands full of photographs