Ten.One Thousand, Four Hundred & Ninety-Nine
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I push against his back to wake him.
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Headlamps. Where are the headlamps? I remove my sweater. It's too warm for this many layers. Can't find the headlamps.
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“What are you doing? It's almost 3am.”
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Sixty minutes.
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We make the school loop and then head down to pick up the cases.
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Fog sitting below the smokey haze.
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Quiet.
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Leftover potatoes and vegetables for lunch. A few more hours before kids are home again.
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“I don't have time to do anything.” I kind of like that.
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Garage door won't open. “The power is out,” they say. I'd rather be without power that without water.
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I tell him that the interesting thing about this is that life keeps on going. You can't just press pause.