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Half a Porch

This is a story about porches and dividing-about how Grandma’s back porch was divided in two, and how, in one half of that porch, “someone” took a child’s scissors and made experimental cuts in one of Grandma’s curtains.

In the first part of the 20th century, Grandma and

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