Fiction | June 01, 1990

All These Gifts

Kathryn Chetkovich

When the news that Dinah was getting involved with a married man fired through the family, her brother Cal called to remind her that men were like buses: there would be another one along in five minutes. He was handsome and affable, and he was speaking from personal experience.

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