The Re-Con
The etymology of home
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“Dozens of fireflies glittered like streetlights twinkling in a distant city whose name I didn’t yet know…”
Past Perfect
Arrest of famed boxer almost happened in Laredo on February 26, 1920
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Mann Act: the Color Line was drawn most prominently at the bedroom door of white women
The Re-Con
The Country Corporeal
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“…we stood on the edge of a field where, on a September morning in 1862, the blood of 12,000 men — wounded and dead — soaked the soil. “
Mystery Customer
Brown Hyundai mechanics, go back to school; Boogabites: on time and dependable
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Vaquero Cleaners staff know their customers
Santa Maria Journal
Childhood memories of the silence of the wild world beyond the thin board and batten walls of the ranch house
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Before sweet dreams there was a last look at bright stars on a nightscape of no ambient light
Past Perfect
After biting Tony, it was Spot’s fate to vacate Garfield Street and end up en un rancho
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Or had he been dispatched to the Big Kennel in the Sky?
The Re-Con
The Demonstration: heart thumping, ears ringing — the pistol’s report took us to a hilltop in Vietnam
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45 years later the gunshot called up the echo of Kent State, My Lai, Tet, Walter Cronkite, Saigon, Berkeley, Bobby Kennedy, Woodstock, Nixon, Weathermen, Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr.
Past Perfect
March 31, 1968: when LBJ announced he would not run for President
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He was 58, but looked like 100 years-old.
Past Perfect
García Márquez meets his angel in Laredo, 1961
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Like Lawrence, Leary and Cantinflas, like Highsmith, García Márquez stopped here
