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Two heartbeats and a step away.(Story)(Short Story)
Dad is creaking about the kitchen, his socks in his right armpit. Sometimes he wears a sock in each armpit but when it's really cold, they are in the same one. The toes flop out like rabbit's ears. For a moment he looks to me like a hybrid. I wonder vaguely whether I should put Beware of the Rabbit on our gate. My dad came into my life late. I was thirty-eight. He rang me up and said he thought it would be a good idea if I knew where I was conceived.
"Where then?" I had asked, staring at the widow's peak of his hair, and fingering my own.
"Steps of St Patrick's. I was thirteen, your mother fourteen."
I never knew my mother. She was whirled off ...
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