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Shane McCauley: Compatibility

Shane McCauley

Sep 01 2015

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Compatibility

 

They used to meet, the old men, by the

town pump. First one would speak of

his grief. After polite silence the other

would reply. It was usually late afternoon.

They always parted comforted, yet

both had come from remote areas

and neither knew the other’s language.

Shane McCauley

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