“Oh, you should see the cherries!” I told my friend Marsha during one of our regular phone calls. “The trees are full of pink, ripening fruit. They look like happy emojis.”
I now live in France (in la Côte d’Or in Burgundy, where my daughter, Annabelle and Marsha’s son, Brian, now live); Marsha, lives in New Hampshire, but we speak daily and share confid…
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