Kitchen

The kitchen long gone. In its place something modern, then modern again. Faucets and an electric range and a refrigerator, carpet and a plastic wear-guard.

Once? A cast-iron sink, enamel-surfaced. A wood-burning stove. A dutch oven. A shelf full of pots, another of dishes, another of jars. A large sturdy table where two-year-old Helen played with a bowlful of flour and water, her face and fingers covered with paste, poking and patting. The paste it splattered everywhere and her aunt smiling nervously. Baby Helen where she had never been allowed before but never would be again.

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