The Palm of My Hand

I grew up in a large Victorian, red-brick house built in 1888. Bats would swoop through open transom windows over our bedroom doors at night. Birds would get in the chimney. We’d hear them fluttering. We’d open the fireplace doors so they could fly out the open door. We had a pool in our backyard. We buried drowned mice in little margarine containers in the backyard garden.
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