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the small thread

the small thread

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Thomas Kneeland, MA, MFA
Oct 15, 2024
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a clock on a shelf
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I am now at the point in life where I have to be the person my eighteen-year-old self needed. Back & forth: I return to this laptop & wish for all the answers to tell him—that life gets better as the years pass. That love is easier to obtain, the nicer you are to the ones you love. To affirm him. To let him know that he is a …

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