LITRO MAGAZINE
8 March 2024
On birthdays but sometimes not, Ruth lived to fan out the jumbos with her thumb. The dirty work, of course, came first. Her fingers stiffened under the faucet as she extracted the dark, shiny string from the inner and outer curl. Her mother once taught her how to use cold running water to dislodge the grit, purge traces of the past.
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