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Dateline Fall River:

three members of the Amaral family died

within a few days of each other due to

complications stemming from the Covid-19 virus.

the small grocery store which they owned

and worked tirelessly for–– and where I occasionally

shopped for emergency bread and eggs has closed its doors.

It won’t recover.

I’m scrambling my brain to remember the last time I was there,

carrying the little red plastic basket around the narrow aisles for

the staples I need in a hurry and for a few of those wonderful

spinach and broccoli flatbread sandwiches, individually wrapped in cellophane.

flowers wrapped in cellophane and teddybears are set at the door's foot.