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36 the widows’ handbook In the Rain Patricia L. Goodman Dread precedes us like a dirge as my daughter and I walk the edge of the woods. We have found his note. Dave! I yell. My voice shakes. Don’t, Mom, she whispers, you may startle him. We enter the tree line near his deer stand. She extends her arm to stop me. Ahead, beside the tree, a yellow mass of rain slicker on the ground. It’s Eric, she breathes, our youngest son, a crumpled ball of despair, beside the body of his father. ...

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