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She sat on her tightly upholstered loveseat while her little pug dog, Miles, stood on his tiny feet and shook in a frenzy of need, yapping his small mouth, his eyes bulging.

Here's my message today to Elizabeth Strout: My dear, you are a FIERCE, ferocious, badass writer. You make me lightheaded.

In her mind, she was a faint pencil line on a piece of paper; everyone else was drawn in ink, some--like the minister--with a firm Magic Marker.

Kids wanted fathers to have answers.

The morning light's radiance showed in the sharp, clear blue of the sky, in the twinkling of a fender of a car that passed by, in the open-handed beauty of the leaves moving in the tall maples along this section of the town's Main Street.