The Trophy That Told the Truth at Three in the Morning
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Daniel packed for Denver the way he always packed, badly and at the last minute, with one black sock dangling from the suitcase zipper like a tongue. I remember leaning in the bedroom doorway, watching him fold the same shirt twice because he wasn't really looking at it. A two-day sales conference, he said. Keynotes, a hotel ballroom, the kind of catered lunch where the chicken is always slightly cold. He'd be back Thursday night. He kissed me at the door, rolled the suitcase down our front steps, and the airport car pulled away into the gray morning.
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