EVERYONE HAS A STORY

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In chronological order: Cell phone broke. Train left. Lost tokens. Dropped a stack of ones on the floor in front of judging eyes. Got lost. Made it home. Never did get that passport…

First winter out of small town Washington. Stranded in a blizzard in Trenton NJ’s train station. All my possessions in two suitcases. Rescued by a military wife headed to Fort Dix.

I really want him to say “We’ll call her Mary. Her name is Sue, but we’ll call her Mary.”

Have you ever felt a rush of fear? A chill rushing down your spine? Is something wrong? Something right? Think magic.

Magic is driving a bus for multiple disability kids and seeing the sweetest smile on a child’s face because the nurse had cleared his trache. The little things that count.

Doctor says all we can do now is pray. Gram bleeding internally. Gram otherwise healthy. Gram 100% alert. No! Google…bleeding…expert…stop…yes!…swallowable camera…email…9AM…ambulance transfer…success!

Large slam, thought it was a door. It wasn’t. Branch down. Large enough to be a tree. It didn’t hurt me or the house. Magic.

Vietnamese is a tonal language. Pho with a arising tone means soup. With a falling tone apparently meant I was going hungry again.

Too guilty, too pleasurable to say.