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The Couples
By Steve Burkett
They entered the park at the corner of 11th and "I" Street moving on the walking path, crossing over to 10th and J. It has been overcast that morning so they were both wearing jackets. He, the old hand-me-down black leather jacket with all the zippers on it. She had taken from him there their first year together. She said it wasn't that she would ever forget his name, but so he would know who he belonged with.
They were holding hands, smiling, moving at a swift pace. As the young couple came upon a much slower moving elderly couple, they stepped apart momentarily as they would pass the elderly couple on either side. The elderly couple with their arms wrapped around one another in a loving embrace were smiling knowingly into one another's eyes, no longer in any hurry to get to wherever they all gazed.
As the young couple passed, they all gazed into one another's eyes. The elder couple no longer recognized the young couple, but they remembered those jackets. They slowed down even more as they watched their youth fading away, down the path behind them.
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