small town

We have finally completed our move from Indiana to Virginia. It was a pretty traumatic event, but we are all here and all of our things are with us and we have a nice, new, big house to get used to. We currently do not have television or telephone access and our brand new Sprint cell phones don't work out here.

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The trumpet player pulled into the empty high school parking lot and sat in his car, wondering where everybody was. He didn’t know it yet, but he was early. He’d gotten the day and the place right on his calendar, but the hour wrong. But because he didn’t know this yet, he wondered if it wasn’t in fact yesterday that he was supposed to be here, playing for the grand march that was the highlight of graduation ceremonies in this small Maine town, and now everybody in the town’s band was wondering where the hell he had been.

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