She gave me a recipe for beans and rice after my boyfriend and I had a delightful diner in her home. Her boyfriends and mine both worked in baseball. She had a beautiful face and a body that Marilyn Monroe would’ve envied

I can see myself getting up from a small campfire and walking away from it across the dunes to the beach. When I go over the last big hill and down to the shore, I see its nighttime isolation.