Good trip back home? she asked

home had always been where his parents lived  he hadnt made one for himself 

                                                                             Yes Im filing it under Wonders Never Cease

Never’s a mighty long time.

It is it is

If I may, what wonder, wonders?

Singular Turns out I have a cousin who is a bearded woman

 

                                                                 She called me keezen  I said wha  Keezen cousin  I said Like kissing cousins an I kissed her

                                      Your beard tickles

I get tha every time.

Didnt wanna snap your streakhappy to hear  Its a nice beardnot scraggily full  yet softdowny

Thank you. she stroked it thumb index finger beginning under her nose running outward to the corners of her mouth then her hand fully employedchin in palm then stroking downward and finishing thumb and index meeting at her throat

I used to shave it off every day, what a pain in the ass, then when I did let it go, kept it trimmed, I was impressed, it’s a goodlooking beard.

It is suits your facemakes your eyes pop their green compliments its tawnybrown

Thank you.

Yare welcome Were polite arent we

A family trait.

Yes.

Understand you live in Tennessee

Appalachia, near Tennessee Valley, lot like Ukraine.

Thas a curious distinction 

Raises eyebrows.

Raised mine

It did.

Small town

Yes, village, I’m a teacher. I understand you live in a small town, rural California.

We have small in common keezen

she laughed You’re learning.

You taught me 

                 Do you make the family picnic often

Apparently, I understand, as often as you since you moved from Illinois.

Yes first time in almost thirty years though I was here for the first the first twentysix

I was here once as a little girl, this is my first time since.

Im happy we coincidedwhich isnt to say a coincidence I don believe in that

Neither do I. 

              Listen . . we have to work the crowd . .

. . The family . .

. . Is there a difference?

No 

    Anwere outliers

  Outliers.   I hadn’t thought of that. You’re right.

We is

       Maybe when the picnic breaks up we can get a beer  Id like that

I’d like that too, keezen.

they embracedkissed again then entered separate throngs  family all

Kissin keezens

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Awright awright awright 

                            a guy can change his mind

he did say 

           I also dont travel . . . walk where I need to go  need not want  anif asked Id be hardpressed to name a place Id want to visit  going vicariously is every bit as good going

his daughter called

they had their usual twoanahalf hour tete-a-tete which tickled them more than they could say

                                                                                                   they solved all the problems of the world then before hanging upsaying Goodbye I love you erased the whiteboard returned it to its original Locked tabula rasa  unetched

in conversation she asked if hed heard of Point Nemo

he uttered it three times

                        epizeuxis Awright awright awright he had a habit of doing things in threes  Yaknow aside from Jules Vernes 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Captain Nemo Nemo in Latin is Nobody which coud have been an homage to Odysseus I say Odysseus you say Ulysses Odysseus Ulysses Ulysses Odysseus Greek Latin Latin Greek  lets call the whole thing off he laughedtickled himself she listenedabided  But before they blinded the cyclops Polyphemus gypped oneeyed they told him they were Nobody hence why none of the other cyclopes came to his aid Nobody is killing me  the others thought he was cursed by the gods 

                                                   No nope Ive not heard of Point Nemo

he heard her suck in some air  Could I say?

Yes please it was hard to say which of them were more longwinded though for the most part they imparted hard knowledgedidnt bray like asses

Point Nemo is officially known as the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, rather, the point in the ocean farthest from land. There is no land for a thousand miles in any direction. As a matter of fact, astronauts aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 258 miles from Earth, have been closest to it.

Thats really cool

                      Do you know it coordinates

I thought youd ask so I wrote it down.

he heard her shuffle some papers I had it right here. shuffle Ohwha the hell shuffle shuffle shuffle  Here it is! Got a pen?

Always got a pen babe

It's Fortyeight degrees fiftytwopointsix minutes South, onehundredtwentythree degrees twentythreepointsix minutes West.

he repeated it once to confirm

she acknowledged he got it right 

I love you baby Thank you for calling Its always wonderful to hear your voice

I love you too, Papa.

he was no longer hardpressed to name a place hed want to visit   48°52.6’S 123°23.6’W

  

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