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That Very Winter by Mia Hinkle
That Very Winter by Mia Hinkle
Posted by: Steve Kirsh
October 08, 2008
She came bearing gifts. Timeless treasures wrapped in heavy brown paper with little clods of black soil mixed up with dry bulbs and withered stems. That warm autumn weekend we turned the hard clay soil in my yard and planted irises and day lilies and peonies that had been dug up from her garden and her mother's garden over 600 miles away.
That very winter, she died.
