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Passport

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Then

There was the story of

The woman at the grocery’s

Who

Encountered

Someone new

Requesting an I-D

To

Accompany the check

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And she brought out

Her passport

Maybe still

Shiny

With unuse

Except it jostled

‘Round

With all the other things

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The purse inside

The purse

You know

Each with jostled things

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Bypassing the license

For that

Passport

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To indicate

To someone new

She might have been somewhere or will

Be going

Somewhere someday soon

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C L Couch

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This story did not happen and is based (fictively) on something the mother said in the movie Breaking Away, directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich.  Set in Bloomington, it is a good movie for (about) the summer. The mother is portrayed by Barbara Barrie.

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Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash

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