Old nostalgia tore at Shane with honeyed thoughts. It hurt in lovely ways, broke him with tender memories of a distant home: The chipped red paint on the front door. The sound of the breeze through the farm. His mother stealing sugar packets from diners. His father tracing the sky above with a finger, saying: You’ll go there someday, I know it. They all…
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