My heart is humming a tune
Valentine's Day with Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove
In February hearts appear in conspicuous places.
Age nineteen, my first winter living alone. Basement apartment in a university neighbourhood. My route to the subway took me past stately Victorian and Edwardian houses, three and four storeys high, their faces impenetrable, unwilling to reveal hints about who lived inside them. There were
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