She shot the young girl a grin. "What are you studying?"
"American poets."
"Have a favorite?"
"I like Robert Frost."
"I always liked Frost." Kasey smiled as lines flitted through her mind. "His poems always remind me of my grandfather."
"Your grandfather?"
"He's a doctor in a remote section of West Virginia. Blue mountains, forest, streams. Last time I went home, he was still making house calls." He'll be making them when he's a hundred, she thought, and missed him suddenly, acutely. It had been too long since she'd
been home. "He's an incredible man—big and strapping with white hair and a big, booming voice. Gentle hands."
Tonight and Always
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