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Maya Ruiz was eleven years old the day the scout showed up at the chain-link field behind Roosevelt Middle
Maria Delgado had seen a lot of paperwork cross her desk in nineteen years running a youth sports program
I have only told this story once, live on the stage of the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville. The host asked
I was wiping fingerprint smudges off the driver's side window of the crimson 720S when Todd let
The note in my wedding dress said: Know your place. It was written in red ballpoint on the back of a
The first snow of the season had just started falling on Denver when I slipped into the back seat of
Ruth Callahan was on the roof before sunrise, the November wind cutting through her wool sweater and
The bus shelter on Gallatin Pike had a rusted roof and a bench that smelled like bleach and stale rainwater.
We were ten minutes early, which in Constance Hayworth’s house counted as late. Adam and I had walked
The room above the print shop was supposed to be the venue for my fiftieth. One big window looked out









