We left the Christmas party feeling festive, yet navigating unfamiliar streets left us uncertain that we weren't repeating lefts and rights. Something's just not right, I guessed. Just then it hit us: we'd left the stoneware plate of iced sugar cookies on top of the car. We found our way, and in a Walgreen's parking lot we stopped to look, take in the loss, its fate.
O little miracle! Our dread set aside! "Well, I've never seen that before," said she, and he said, "It was sort of like a ghost kept holding it until we knew." Abiding like that, it moved us, newly grateful. Gleefully we drove with plate and sweets recovered, unlost.
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