Techno © 1996 Doris Flueck

 
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Aunt Dotty said
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"I don't smoke much
anymore, keep my cigarettes in the
refrigerator. My father was
caretaker for Moravian and Woodland cemeteries,
we lived, in fact, on the cemetery grounds,
but he and Mother didn't get along,
they divorced. I married, had
a daughter, then I divorced, but married
again for a year this time,
he was a real jerk, then once more
I married, to Bill, I loved Bill,
you know that, but it didn't
work out, we divorced and later he
killed himself, shot himself in the chest
with a shotgun, a damn shotgun.
I don't know where my
daughter Barbara is. Seems I lost
her in the shuffle."

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Michael Estabrook
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December 1996

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