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  1. Friday, January 1, 1960 · Don Krumpos

    Before He Was My Father

    His history was very hidden. Maybe that was trauma. Maybe it was temperament. Maybe those are not as separate as we pretend. His father died when he was thirteen. His sister Catherine died not long after. Houses burned. More than…

  2. Thursday, June 11, 1964 · Don Krumpos

    The One Photo

    My grandmother had one photograph of my grandfather. Just one. It sat for as long as I can remember on a shelf in her house on Nicolet Drive, so constant I almost stopped seeing it, though it watched over everything.…

  3. Wednesday, January 13, 1965 · Don Krumpos

    Lot 50-B

    She was buried in Lot 50-B. My grandfather, seven months earlier, in Lot 50-C. The plots sit beside one another in Section A of Mount Calvary Cemetery in De Pere, father and daughter sharing ground, their names joined beneath a…