Sunday, October 25, 2026
Mavenlus
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PART 2 OF 20

THE STONES

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The patio behind our house is bluestone. Big slabs, a hundred and forty of them, laid by somebody in 1998 and never touched since.

Bluestone at forty-one degrees of air temperature is not forty-one degrees. Stone holds the night. I know this the way plumbers know pipes.

Sophia was on her side on the third slab from the doors.

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