Category: Homecoming
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Timeless Sea
by Kelly Salasin I plop right down in the ocean soaked sand, just far enough from the incoming tide, and begin digging. I use my hands, never a shovel, letting the fine wet grains stuff themselves behind my fingernails. I won’t go as far as China today. I’ll scoop just enough to make a…
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“That’s My Daddy” from 4 to 40
by Kelly Salasin “That’s my daddy! That’s my daddy!” A four-year old girl stands with a tiny suitcase in hand as a passenger ferry pulls into dock. When she spies her father on the second-story deck, she jumps up and down, shouting, “That’s my daddy! That’s my daddy!” Surprisingly, that little girl is me (almost…
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