Creative: In The Lamp Light After my first evening at Pine Vale, I decided I'd never tell Howard I was sitting on a stone bench under the evergreens in the darkening twilight, inspecting the piece of wood that I'd been carving. It was going to be a dog--maybe a German shepherd. I liked to shape things, not just whittle. I thought about smoking. Not thinking of actually doing it, mind you, only remembering. Over the years, liver spots had replaced the nicotine stains on my fingers. I'd begun carving a set of chess pieces to occupy my time back when I quit. Howard walked along the sidewalk from the clinic door. His steps were slow and deliberate. Not like those of someone suffering the wounds of age, but as if each step was a new adventure with no past and an uncertain future. He stopped beneath a yellow light. Tall and slim, he was, with thick, w....

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