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Handsome widower in his fifties with short graying hair, a trimmed gray beard and warm brown eyes standing on the catwalk of a wooden fire lookout tower above endless mountains at golden hour

For 94 Days I Talked to Her Every Night on a Fire Lookout Radio. I Didn’t Know What She Looked Like. On the Last Day of the Season, She Said She Was Coming Up the Mountain

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I spend every summer alone in a fire lookout tower at 7,000 feet in the Idaho wilderness. My only contact with the world is a radio. That summer, the woman on the other end of it had a laugh I couldn’t stop thinking about, and a reason she never told me for why she was alone too.

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Handsome widower in his late fifties with thick silver hair, a short silver beard and kind gray eyes standing on the platform at Chicago Union Station beside a silver passenger train at golden hour

On the Train From Chicago to San Francisco, the Woman in the Seat Next to Me Was Taking the Same Trip My Late Wife and I Planned for 30 Years and Never Took. She Was Doing It for the Same Reason

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For thirty years, my wife and I talked about taking the California Zephyr. Fifty-one hours across America, through the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. We kept waiting for the right time. She died in February. In September, I bought one ticket. The woman in the seat beside me had bought one, too.

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