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Tag: Labradorite

Labradorescence

Posted on January 13, 2020December 26, 2021 by Simon J. Wood

(750 words) Debonair, that was how Susan, my friend from Pilates, had always described my husband, Peter – before his accident. Now his blue eyes, roman nose, square chin and neatly cut jet-black hair – dyed, of course – stared back from the life-size photograph propped on the windowsill by the television. How I longed to smash it.

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