By: Michael James Greenwald It’s a melancholy day, here in Chicago, inside and out. Drizzle and wet, white-gray clouds linger over my damp drive-way. Water beads my sister’s windshield, blades of sprung grass. I feel it in my head; maybe like an old man feels the cold weather in his arthritic knee, I feel a [...]
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