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Apostasy in the Old Dominion

Apostasy in the Old Dominion

I

The redbrick colonial suffered serial expansions so ambitious, it now appears plagued by tumors. Sturdy and substantial, but unwell. As if Washington, in that unfinished portrait by Stuart, had grown enormous goiters.

II

Inside, downstairs, overstuffed ball-and-claw love seats where love was never made. Ample room for the bridge club to render verdict and assess penalty for libidinal faux pas…

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Matryoshka

There you were. A fist-sized, smiling blonde, blue-scarved and blue-eyed, with lots of nested potential. Sturdy. Hard to knock down.

But there was that long-legged one with the improbable chest. And that other one, soft as a pillow. An orphan born under a cabbage she claimed… Sure.

“Your scarf looks like my grandmother’s”, hissed the leggy viper. “Who’ll sleep with a wooden girl who rattles…

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Turtle

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When I was five, my father gave it away. He said I looked like a turtle.

I thought he just meant posture, head sticking out forward from rounded shoulders, or maybe I just wasn’t quick, or couldn’t get a hold of simple things.

I did not understand faces then. I did not know careful studies show when puppet-wire muscles crease the nose, the nostrils arch, and the upper lip flutters– it is the…

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