The empty chair

rethyNovember 8, 2017November 8, 2017Anakkara, Memories#achan #emptychair, Anakkara

Some chairs are never empty

Memories sit on them…

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shoreacres says:

November 8, 2017 at 11:44 am

So lovely. Sometimes, absence can become even more resonant than an actual presence.

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1. rethy says:
  
  November 10, 2017 at 9:10 am
  
  Thanks Linda. My father used to sit on that chair.
  
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