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The Butterfly Hours

For 2019 I'm responding to prompts from THE BUTTERFLY HOURS by Patty Dann.

Here are links:

apron
bar
basketball (poem)
bed (poem)
bicycle
birthday
boat
broom (poem)
button
cake
car
chair (poem)
chlorine
church
concert
cookbook
couch (poem)
dancing
desk (poem)
dessert (poem)
dining room table (poem)
diploma
divorce (poem)
dream
door
envelope
emergency room
eyebrows
first apartment
first job (poem)
food
game
gloves (poem)
guidebook
gun
hair (poem)
hands (poem)
hat (poem)
high heels (poem)
honeymoon
hood
hospital
hotel
humming (poem)
ice skating
illness
kitchen table
knife
laundry
library (poem)
lunch
mail (poem)
mouse (poem)
moving (poem)
museum
music
name
necklace
neighbor
notebook
October (poem)
office
pajamas (poem)
paper
party
pencil (poem)
perfume
phone book
photograph
pictures
pipe (poem)
playground
prayers
recipes
ribbon (poem)
rice (poem)
road (poem)
saltwater
sandwich
school
sewing
shoes
sister
slippers
snow
snowstorm
soccer
soup (poem)
stairs
stamp
stepmother (poem)
straws
studio (poem)
stuffed animal
summer job (poem)
tatoos
telephone
tennis court
theater
test
train
trophy
typewriter
umbrella (poem)
Vietnam 
war  (poem)
washing machine 
widow 
window (poem)
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