![]() ![]() The Park is bursting with spring blossoms. ![]() In the dream, she is hovering close to him, and they are on 110th Street, close to the Harlem Meer, at the northeast corner of Central Park. Later that same night, perhaps after she’d gone, he had a dream, which he wrote about briefly and beautifully in an e-mail to the family. Carol died early last April, and almost the first thing that she wasn’t aware of is that our son, John Henry, who is Clara’s father, after saying goodbye to her about ten hours before her death, which was clearly coming, flew home to Portland, Oregon. More important, perhaps, she doesn’t know that her granddaughter Clara is really enjoying her first weeks of nursery school and is beginning to make progress with her slight speech impediment. ![]() She doesn’t know that the San Francisco Giants won the World Series, in a sweep over the Tigers. She doesn’t know anything about Hurricane Sandy. My wife, Carol, doesn’t know that President Obama won reëlection last Tuesday, carrying Ohio and Pennsylvania and Colorado, and compiling more than three hundred electoral votes. Carol and Roger Angell, Brooklin, Maine, 1966. ![]()
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