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Month: April 2025

A wooden bench sits in the foreground, behind it is a beach with the tide halfway out

My Son in the Sun
by Zachary Robert Long (2837 words, estimated reading time: 13 minutes)

Posted on April 9, 2025April 9, 2025 by Zack Long

Bills Hicks had a bit about how he didn’t understand what people saw in the beach. It’s where water meets land. What’s so special about that? But he had a change of heart on the matter while dealing with the cancer that eventually killed him. I get that. I never really liked the beach when…

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