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The Notebooks in Dad's Nightstand
After Harlan's stroke, his daughter finds the notebooks where he wrote down the small things his wife Dot did every day, and reads them aloud at his bedside.
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The Lineman Who Held the Hymnal
Five Sundays after Dot died, Howard Pruitt went back to church and couldn't find the hymn. Then a stranger in a work jacket slid into his pew and held the book.
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After a spring fire took 46 years of family photo albums, Marlene dreads Thanksgiving in a rented duplex. Then her family arrives carrying envelopes.
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