Thomas Earles
Assistant Director, Writing Center, English
tearles@umd.edu
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"On the Ride to Stargard"
Natalia wakes me at 5:30 a.m. for work. She shakes my arm and I take out the earplugs that I’ve started wearing to block out the noise of the upstairs neighbors.
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They wake up even earlier than we do. Natalia and I both start work at 8 a.m., but she works right here in town, her hometown in Poland, and I need to take the train to the language school all the way in Szczecin.
"Milena"
We’d already been living in town several months the first time we saw Milena.
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It was a few weeks before Christmas, and she was standing at the row of vegetables in Biedronka, turning a head of cabbage over in her hands.