2 Packs
a man forgiven
“He's been faithful all my life — two packs at a time.”
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The record as a road
One family, told twice.
Ten stations in track order, clockwise from the gas station. Two watch from the crown of the tree; one knocks from outside the border. Pull any thread.
The thirteen
The people, in their own frames.
Rosemary
a daughter named
“The prettiest part of you is the part that don't get old.”
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The Carpenter
a brother built
“Grow where God planted you.”
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Brother Mark
a brother raised
“He came up breathin' — so I'm gonna keep livin'.”
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Virginia Falls
a son marked
“The water marked you first — the ink just wrote it down.”
Track 5the song →
United
a team forged
“They came to me as boys, they walked away as men.”
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Hibiscus
a woman answered
“Somebody knew I'd find heaven there.”
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Mother
two mothers carried
“Love don't leave when the leavin's done.”
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The Mechanic
a mender mended
“It took the Master Mechanic to fix the fixin' man.”
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The Shepherd
a shepherd stayed
“It's always been enough.”
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Stan
the table in the basement
“Keep 'em flyin'.”
An engineer who built his own drafting table in the basement, built airplanes on it, and flew the real ones home to Rosemary. Mending wings was what he handed down — through the son who spent his life in the belly of them, on to the woman that son married.
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Rosemary
his bride, the first one
“She carries her name.”
An Irish woman who threw in with Stan and never wavered, and raised seven of them in the doing. She lived long enough to know the girl who would carry her name — a name that crossed a marriage instead of a bloodline to get there.
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Christmas Angel
one Christmas Eve
“She ended up bein' mine.”
A stranger who opened her door on Christmas Eve to a man carrying what he had, and fed him cookies while she talked about her boy. He had gone to be her angel that night — he drove home outranked.
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