Episode 69: The Kindness of Strangers

Terrastina stops her bicycle at a yard sale. An elderly man sits behind a table displaying record albums from the forties, stacks of color slides, worn tools, and piles of paperback westerns, mostly yellowed and brittle. My kids are moving me into an old folks home, says the man. I can’t take this stuff with me, so it’s bargain time for everyone. Terrastina examines a rusty crescent wrench. How long have you been out here? she asks. Two days, says the man. People look but they don’t buy. I think, says Terratina, they don’t want to take your memories.

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