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The ChinaAbigale F. Kemp Here I am, sitting dusty and cold under three other plates that all look the same as me. I suppose we are approaching Christmas, as I heard Mama call out, “Can someone wash the china?” earlier this morning. We are the china, old antique dishes that have been passed down as an heirloom through several generations, with rich, red holly details, a few with chips but most of us sustaining little to no wear over our years of somewhat infrequent use. We have sat here for three-hundred and sixty-four days a year, so...
Home for the HolidaysAbigale F. Kemp My father often took my brother and me fishing at Alpine Lake, a reservoir close to my childhood home, and while I looked up to my brother, I was never very interested in the actual fishing aspect of our trips to the lake. I usually stuck to running around and being an annoyance, definitely scaring any fish away if there were any in the first place. One afternoon while my brother and father were fishing, amidst my boredom I decided to catch a fish. I dumped my father’s almost-empty coffee cup into a bush...
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