He meant to watch the whole thing. He always means to.The remote still in his hand, the news gone to color bars,his mouth a little open — forty years of early morningsfinally catching up to him on a Sunday afternoon.I turn the television off. I do not wake him.Let the man sleep through one thing he intended to see.
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