I Came Home From Overseas Expecting to See My 1969 Corvette Waiting

but has not lived with the original long enough to understand where it lives in the body. The E was wrong. I loop mine, always have, a habit from a teacher in fourth grade who said loops make it yours. That one was stiff. Hesitant. Practiced by someone who had copied the shape but not the motion.

My chest did not tighten.

It steadied.

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