We have a lot of rain in June. Mom tries to be cool by saying that she likes all the same things that I do. She folds her handkerchief neatly. The sky is clear; the stars are twinkling. I ask her: “Where do random thoughts come from?” She tells me, against the water streaming down: “He didn’t want to go to the dentist, yet he went anyway.”

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