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Lost Pride
Laura Ricketts
“The pine tree that dominated the front courtyard of our home still splays its branches out in my memory. My Papa had clasped its beginnings as he watched his country curve and fuse into the horizon. He used to trace my fingers over the web of tiny scars that gloved his hand. Papa said that his fist had tightened as his home vanished and only the hot flush of blood from the pine cone had shaken his nostalgic trance …”
