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Chapter Seventy Four — Spring

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The tulips came up in the last week of March.

Not just the one she had forced early in the terracotta pot. All of them. The full December planting coming up through the kitchen garden beds in the specific determined way of things that have been waiting in cold ground for their moment and have decided the moment has arrived.

Red. Every one.

She stood at the edge of the beds on a Saturday morning and looked at them and felt something that she had been feeling in small increments since January bui
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