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36 parting gifts The gift he gave the last time we parted— a blue-green lozenge of Venetian glass I clutched all the way across Texas to that hotel at the edge of some town I drove up to and stopped—in the bathroom a clear box mounted to the wall and a note in blue pen, please dispose of needles safely—his phone ringing in my ear as I waited in my clothes on the gritty sheets, men’s voices outside, sirens and thunder. It held us up a long time, that story. ...

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