31. Tee

Tee

T he DVD leaning against my door has me frowning.

“The hell?” I mutter to myself when I read the title from afar. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid . I pick it up and am even more bewildered by the sound of… shards?

Opening the case, I find the DVD busted into a thousand pieces.

That’s when I remember Butch’s letter.

Me mentioning that I didn’t like Westerns, but that I liked Robert Redford.

My mouth tightens, but though I stalk over to the trash can and I drop it in there, it doesn’t stay there long.

An hour later, I swipe it out.

Thirty minutes later, I dump it back in.

Four hours later, the DVD case is in a box.

With his letters.

The ones I can’t throw out.

With the blue chalcedony.

And the Taihang Mountain Thuja incense cones that were propped outside my door yesterday.

“He’s such a jerkface.”

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