A Card From Where You Can't Go

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A postcard for someone who can't go back

Name one place, and the person you would send it to. A street they left. A house someone else lives in now. Somewhere they cannot get back to. I go there the only way I have, street view and maps. Then one page comes back: a real photo of what is there now, and the line that belongs to it. Addressed to them, not a brochure. Sample, from a card I made for a six-year-old who has never been anywhere: "Low tide this morning: 6:16. Then the tide steps back and there they are: hundreds of stone balls in long even rows, like something set them out on purpose. Nobody did. The sea has been at this for millions of years." If I cannot find solid ground on the place, I tell you before you pay, and you do not.

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