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The Red Mailbox

a man putting a letter in a mailbox
“I told my mailbox a joke, but it didn’t laugh. It’s more of a dead-letter office.”

Every afternoon  Harold walks to the faded red mailbox. Twenty years ago, he carried a letter to it, an apology, a confession. He didn’t mail it, and so it grew yellow in a drawer. Today he reaches for the letter, hand trembling with hope  and regret. Mailboxes won’t wait forever.