My father’s little treasure chest is cyan blue; I painted it that way, with faint silver brushstrokes that shimmer. Metal rivets line the seams across its wooden surface, and gargoyles guard its opening latch; one of them lost the ring in its mouth somewhere between Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. A minister’s family is like that: parts of self …
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