Poetry of the Graveyard
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Years ago I dated a woman from Mountain Brook, Alabama. One time I was driving with her family and asked if we could go by a cemetery in Mulga, Alabama, where two of my friends from the Army were buried. Lee got shot in Afghanistan and Cloutier OD’d on a Greyhound Bus.
My ex-girlfriend’s family didn’t quite know how to react when we got to the cemetery—…