THE DAY WE LEFT my stepmother, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway collapsed, and the new life my father had imagined, spiriting his children back to his childhood home, fell away from us as quickly as that bridge, the whole world thrown off-balance like a gyroscope hammered into the wrong shape, the lake coughing up our family's secrets in the form of an old bent-backed black servant.
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Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
by John Gregory Brown
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"THE DAY WE LEFT my stepmother, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway collapsed, and the new life my father had imagined, spiriting his children back to his childhood home, fell away from us as quickly as that bridge, the whole world thrown off-balance like a gyroscope hammered into the wrong shape, the lake coughing up our family's secrets in the form of an old bent-backed black servant."
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