The nurse said it the second she rolled down her window. Snow was blowing sideways across Route 9, and the wipers on her dented silver Corolla were going as fast as they could. She didn\u2019t look at me. She looked past me, out at the gas station across the road, where for over a year a rusty green Honda had sat every school morning with its engine running.The lot was empty except for the snowplow guy filling up at pump four.She said it like a joke, but her eyes weren\u2019t joking.\u201cDidn\u2019t show today,\u201d I said. \u201cFirst time in a year.\u201dShe paid for her own small vanilla latte. It was $4.85, the same as always. She dug the money out of a little coin purse shaped like a strawberry, and she looked strange doing it, like a woman reaching for a stair that isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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