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"Coward" makes me cringe. No one wants to be a coward, but sometimes even for a second the opportunity comes up. A coward is a state of being that is impossible to overcome. Once a coward, doubt creeps in and then the act of cowardness becomes a drug of choice.
The fragrance of Lilies of the Valley wafted across the Italian marble floor and into the adjoining bedroom. She could almost taste the fragrance as it swirled up the bed post and over the silk sheets to the massive pillows where she lay dreaming...
I think of jelly roll and Van the Man with this one, I hear him singing, and I remember those car trips on my own, wondering where I could find jelly roll on the way to Petaluma in the morning with the fog slowing down traffic and the cows watching me pass by, jelly rolls, so sweet.