| ONE AFTERNOON. while Tvavis and Sarah and Pat all slept naked under a blanket of August heat. Liv took a plastic bucket that once had heldtwo pounds of Shedd s peanut butter and walked the halfmile to where the road ended at Helen Alden s driveway.While out walking with her children in June, Liv hadnoticed the blackberry bramble so thick with white blos-som It looked, at a distance, as if it had been snowed on.She had been waiting since tor the fruit the flowers fore-told, On first meeting Miss Alden she had asked permis-sion to pick there. Miss Alden seemed pleased she hadbothered to ask. Most people wouldn t, wild berries onanyone s property being widely, if not universally, deemeda kind of free fall to anyone with sufficient initiative toglean them, Wearing a long-sleeved cotton shirt and jeans to protectherself from the brambles, never mind the heat. and an old,straw fedora to shade her face and protect her head fromthe sun, she walked down the dusty dirt road listening tothe insects, which seemed to be the only living thingsbesides herself abroad. |
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