i knew a girl.
I knew a girl who moved into the house next to mine at the same time as me. She was incredibly kind, always waved with a smile behind the wheel of her favorite Chevy Tracker when she backed out of the driveway on the way to get groceries at the Food Lion down the road, and if you missed her on her porch walking to get your mail, you’d surely catch her on the way back. She loved to chat over her favorite Virginia Slim shorts, which has now become one of the most nostalgic smells in the world to me. I knew a girl who was out in the yard the day of my wedding. She was approached by a little duckling that my then-soon-to-be-husband had released into the river earlier that morning. The duckling, almost as if by fate, waddled right up to her, and he quickly became her companion for the next six years. She named him “Duck-Duck”. She and I thought he had the same mannerisms as a dog; we thought he was so funny. I knew a girl who loved my child the instant she was told there was one growin...
