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Jennifer Robinson

The d’s and t’s in his childhood scrapbook have long backs and straight spines and his capital letters swirl with youthful pride. The script in his work files is neat but scratchy, the t’s loop and the b’s hunch over. “How much time do you have?” I remember him joking after his second diagnosis, when I asked him to write something, anything, his hand shaking, letters faint, little ghosts on the page, opening, dissolving, more and more loops and more and more holes, until it all became holes, empty, a blank page, just like before, before he ever existed.

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Jennifer Robinson

Jennifer Robinson lives and writes on Treaty 1 territory—the home of the Anishinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Ininew, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline and Nehehowuk as well as the homeland of the Red River Métis Nation. She is a National Magazine Award Gold Medalist whose work can be found in River Teeth's Beautiful Things, the Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire Magazine, Chestnut Review, Grain Magazine and elsewhere.

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