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An Expensive Picnic

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JD Breen
May 23, 2021
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Atlanta, GA

May 23, 2021

Yesterday was my wife’s birthday. But it’s her husband who’s getting old. Frozen shoulders, sore back, crotchety disposition…and whatever hairs remain are either turning grey or thinning away.

Last week, he stumbled to the edge of his driveway, picked up the paper, and mumbled futilely at the headlines as he shuffled back to the h…

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