| AMAZE | Stephen Clay Dearborn |
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Backgammon Lesson, 1984 She had magenta hair, wore a long cotton dress, twirled the doubling cube between pale fingers. Red shoes -- Converse low-tops -- hung on the living room wall, pristine but for the nails through their soles. She said she put them there as an offering to Elvis Costello's rusty-winged angels. I was about to put them on, she said, and the radio just started playing that song. She rolled double sixes, cleared her inner table, and began singing softly to herself. It’s been seventeen years since that summer Friday; I wonder, did she get any older?
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