<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">A Single Autumn</font><div style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">The year my parents died<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">one that summer one that fall<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">I moved into the house<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">where they had lived their last years<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">it had never been theirs<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">and was still theirs in that way<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">for a while</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">echoes in every room<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">without a sound<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">all the things that we<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">had never been able to say<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">I could not remember</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">doll collection<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">in a china cabinet<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">plates stacked on shelves<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">lace on drop-leaf tables<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">a dried branch of bittersweet<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">before a hall mirror<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">were all planning to wait</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; max-width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); width: var(--responsive--aligndefault-width); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">the glass doors of the house<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">remained closed<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">the days had turned cold<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">and out in the tall hickories<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">the blaze of autumn had begun<br style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px;">on its own</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; scroll-margin-top: 100px; margin-top: var(--four-spacer); margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; back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