They were my father’s books; I can’t remember a time they were not tucked in their row of five in some bookcase in my childhood home. Now they’re showcased table-top, tattered spines out in mine, next to a happy photo of their true owner.
They were: Pride and Prejudice, The Life of Lincoln, Psychology, Plato’s The Republic, and Poems of Emily Dickinson. …
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