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Cuckoo
By Madeleine E. Robins
Apr 14, 2019
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5,003 words ·
19 minutes
Photo by Scott Webb via Unsplash.
From the author: A spinster adopts a very unusual child: a story about the different ways love can come -- and go, and what it leaves behind.
Tannesburg was too small to have an orphanage. When the hired man from Sarah Eamon’s place found a baby swaddled tightly in grimy cloth and propped against a tree at the edge of Miss Eamon’s property, he brought it with him into town and left it with the doctor. And although the village was not yet connected to the new telephone line, Tannesburg had an efficient grapevine, and Miss Eamons had heard all about the foundling and the way it had squalled, tucked under Pete Hargill’s arm like a...
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John Schmidt
April 17, 7:16pmThank you for this lovely story.
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Madeleine Robins
April 18, 12:51amThank you for letting me know you liked it!
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