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Anniversaryby Jan D. HodgeThe coffee’s good at Hoss’s Grillwhere Lefty sat with Rick. “My golden anniversary is comin’ up right quick. “Our twenty-fifth, I took Louise to Acapulco Bay. Not my kind of saddle horse, but she liked it okay.” He mused a while, took a sip, and gazed into his cup. “So maybe for our fiftieth, I’ll go and pick her up.”
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Jan D. Hodge grew up in a letterpress print shop in small town Michigan, was educated at the Universities of Michigan (B.A., M.A.) and New Mexico (Ph.D.; dissertation on Dickens), and taught for 32 years at colleges in Illinois and Iowa before retiring. His poems have appeared in North American Review, New Orleans Review, Iambs & Trochees, South Coast Poetry Journal, Western Wind, and elsewhere.