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Flat Tire

Tires, Weddings, and the Vortex

The Semmens wedding was the perfect excuse to celebrate surviving this hellscape of a year, and I was more than ready. John Semmens, the groom and now grown-up that I’d started babysitting when I was fifteen years old, was getting married. Although the Semmens had moved from south Georgia years before, our families had remained […]

Flat Tire

Flat Tire

It was the late afternoon of my very first date. Living as far away as we did from any restaurants or movie theatres, my high school sweetheart and I learned that to go anywhere and make it back home in time for my 11pm curfew, we had to leave early. Daddy may have had rules […]