<div class="body-text">
<div class="body-text">Wearing a black satin mask and tuxedo, the limo driver holds open the door.</div>
<div></div>
</div>
<div class="body-text"><span style="font-style: italic;">Take me to the end of the world</span>, I say.</div>
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<div class="body-text"><span style="font-style: italic;">You’re a little late, that happened yesterday.</span></div>
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<div class="line2">A cloud</div>
<div class="line2">empties itself</div>
<div class="line2">on my umbrella</div>


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<div class="line2"><span style="font-style: italic;">Tibetan prayer flags</span></div>
<div class="line2"><span style="font-style: italic;">flap in the wind</span></div>
<div class="line2"><span style="font-style: italic;">no one to talk to</span></div>
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<div class="body-text">Why Tower Air? I ask as my husband packs a suitcase to get ready to attend his mother’s funeral.</div>
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<div class="body-text">Because it’s a bargain, he says.</div>
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<div class="body-text">Wouldn’t you rather fly a major carrier?</div>
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<div class="body-text">I pull a card from my Tarot deck. Out of the 78 possibilities, it’s the Tower that shows up. Flames shoot from the top of a crumbling brick tower while a couple with shock imprinted on their faces falls through the air, crowns flying. There’s no soft landing in sight.</div>
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<div class="body-text">I plead with my husband to book with another airline, but he says he’ll be fine. I shouldn’t put such faith in divination.</div>
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<div class="body-text">As I entertain a couple of acquaintances, the phone rings. My husband’s voice sounds far away.</div>
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<div class="line2"><span style="font-style: italic;">dusk signals the jasmine to release its scent</span></div>
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<div class="body-text">I’m at Kennedy. We had to make an emergency landing. While flames shot from the engine, the pilot told us to put our heads in our laps and brace for impact. The silence was so thick, no one could make a sound. I took my wallet from my jacket, placed it in the seat pocket facing me, just in case my body couldn’t be identified. And then I saw a newspaper headline which seemed so vivid and real—<span style="font-style: italic;">son dies in plane crash after attending mother’s funeral.</span> It was the most bizarre experience. I thought my life was over, that I’d never see you again. When we got off the plane, some people actually kissed the ground. Everyone is shaken including the pilot’s wife. It was her husband’s last flight before retirement.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="body-text">While my guests stuff themselves on tacos and guacamole, I try to regain composure. Don’t sweat the small stuff, they tell me. Get over it. Move on. Come eat.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="body-text">I want to throw them both out but instead I bite my tongue until it aches. I count the minutes until they’re out of my space.</div>
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<div class="line2"><span style="font-style: italic;">the cat brings home a screech owl</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div class="body-text">I sense disappointment in my brother-in-law’s voice. Had there been a fatal accident, he’d inherit all of the mother’s estate. I so need to vent, but my next-door neighbor, who caught a blip about it on the news, is nonchalant.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="body-text">During break in qi gong class, my husband tries to tell a classmate about the incident, but the instructor glares at him as if to say, keep your sad stories to yourself.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line2"><span style="font-style: italic;">The taste </span></div>
<div class="line2"><span style="font-style: italic;">of loneliness</span></div>
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Unique cache key to be produced when this query is stored in an object cache. Default is 'core'.

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Retrieve terms where the description is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

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Retrieve terms where the name is LIKE the input value. Default empty.

Array of object IDs. Results will be limited to terms associated with these objects.

Direction the connection should be ordered in

Field(s) to order terms by. Defaults to 'name'.

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Parent term ID to retrieve direct-child terms of. Default empty.

Search criteria to match terms. Will be SQL-formatted with wildcards before and after. Default empty.

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Array of term taxonomy IDs, to match when querying terms.

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