Involuntary Osmosis

• March 19, 2021
• Experiencing

August 12, 1972. Two figures make their way through the shopping mall parking lot, a young mother holding the hand of her five-year old daughter, mid-Summer heat rising off the blacktop in stultifying waves as they walk past endless rows of Pontiacs and Buicks and Oldsmobiles. The mother’s fingers are dry and cool despite the…