My childhood babysitter and her husband lived down a wooded lane that opened into the Illinois floodplain, in a single-wide trailer across the driveway from her sister’s farmhouse. The two old married couples shared many things, and they kept a large vegetable garden together, perfectly tilled with wide rows of fat cabbages, sweet cherry tomatoes, and blackberry brambles tied up to stakes with strips of old cloth.
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