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Melissa Fondakowski's avatar

I'm with Ashley, below: just catching up on these posts (and haven't had a chance to dig into the Tupelo poems...) but I love this, and your new shaved head! Congrats! You look great!

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I’m behind reading and am finally catching up. Your posts always rip the top of my head off, make me feel like I have lost all my skin. Your prose is poetry. I often get wet-eyed reading them, they are so relatable. That gift from your sister. Wow. Also- dog jackets! When Mark and I were first dating- retired art students- we crafted the most beautiful, hand-made jacket for our greyhound, Grace. It was our work of love. I love a dog jacket. If I could find an affordable Quinta near you, I would set up shop, start a neighbor-appreciation hobby, and maybe start working as a poetry tour guide, leading locals around to see sheep bells and seascapes and holiday lights and orange trees and crumbling walls with ferns growing on them. I wish there was a lucrative business in something as whimsical as that. But then again, I don’t, because the magic of those things is in their unnoticed smallness and the joy at stumbling across them- like the notes in your jar. I’ll keep scouring idealista and maybe one day... until then, I am so grateful for your kindred spirit.

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