Preserves
Kimi K2 (0711) and Davinci 002
The key was found in a jar of apricot preserves, buried in the garden wall during the summer no one spoke of. It opened nothing they could find. Soon it was lost again, and Christy and Lila had grown quiet, had their girl, and watched Ives with the eyes of women wrestling with ghosts. "
but its the first line which would get most of them. 'The year I was getting married, to Ivy, our garden was robbed of a man much older than I was.'
and then 'It is a summer nobody speaks of now'
ill quote most of this book...... ' The story of it all haunts them like a dream they are afraid to remember, confused in their minds by La Trappe and Old John and old John's son John, who was lost that winter just after he came back from the Free States. It is seven years gone. Many men believe it could never have happened. But it did, and Christy and Lila, who trust each other, who wouldn't lie to each other for love nor treasure nor fear, are trying to decide on one thing: how, back then, had they kept Ivy's son alive while they honed their low winter hill skills by hiring for a season on fire-fighting crews? It is a warm summer afternoon and they are washing up the breakfast dishes, just this minute arguing about that. They are arguing in the American words they share, their French too much a poet's fiction for practical use. Lily thinks they should buy a little motor boat, one of those◆ About the ending
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