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Hurricanes, one after another tore through with tornadoes ripping through the townships. \u00a0\u00a0It was her birthday. \u00a0She was safe and removed, watching the destruction on TV, sipping club soda and lime, curled up in her usual place on the end of the couch.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLook at the palm trees bending,\u201d she said to no one. \u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve never actually seen a palm tree in real life.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSure you have,\u201d argued her son who was playing with the dog. \u00a0\u201cWhen we went to Disney World, there were palms. \u00a0\u00a0And how about all those palms in South Carolina at Myrtle Beach?\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWere they real? \u00a0Truly real? \u00a0Or something from a nursery plopped in by a developer in the courtyards of the skyscrapers. \u00a0\u00a0They hardly have enough soil to exist in. \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m not sure they weren’t plastic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh, come on. \u00a0They aren\u2019t plastic.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe ones in DIsney World were plastic. \u00a0\u00a0I \u00a0touched them.\u201d she said as the newscaster on the TV pointed out a \u00a0car driving down the deserted street in Miami.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s very dangerous, to be driving around in this weather,\u201d he said as the wind tossed him down on the sidewalk and ripped the camera into the air.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh my God,\u201d she said and took another sip of club soda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Glenda Kotchish<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 September 2017<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hurricanes, one after another tore through with tornadoes ripping through the townships. \u00a0\u00a0It was her birthday. \u00a0She was safe and removed, watching the destruction on TV, sipping club soda and lime, curled up in her usual place on the end of the couch. \u201cLook at the palm trees bending,\u201d she said to no one. \u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-348","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/348\/revisions\/633"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}