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A Different Story
Elizabeth Brulé Farrell

I was the maid of honor
at your wedding.
You named your daughter
after me. We celebrated
birthdays, shared vacations,
grew old together.
Looking back on the years
we told each other
our time spent as sisters
was the best. Of course
to make this happen
I had to rewrite the story.
You did not die at twenty-two.

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Elizabeth Brulé Farrell has been an advertising copywriter in Chicago, a teacher, and a writer-in-residence in public school systems in Massachusetts. Her poems have been published in The Paterson Literary Review, Poetry East, Except for Love: New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall, The Comstock Review, Pilgrimage, Evening Street Review, Stronger Than Fear, and more. She has been the recipient of the Louise Bogan Memorial Award for Poetry.

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