We were having coffee just like we usually do, talking about the plans for the day, trying to work out the car situation, guessing the snow totals, planning the Christmas gathering when someone asked what the date was, "December the seventh"
"The seventh? Shit - Pearl Harbor Day"
"And you know what I didn't read anything about it in the papers" is what the only veteran in the group said.
Then we started talking about snow again.
the 10 lives of a cat...
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You know, it sounds kind of dumb, or pedestrian, or like I'm
somehow...elongating a pause for dramatic effect - taffy-pulling the
ellipsis, as they used...
5 days ago
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