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The Porch Step
The porch step where Jean Hilliard collapsed has a specific physical reality that is worth contemplating.
A porch step in rural Minnesota in 1980 is a wooden step, probably two or three steps down from the door level to the ground, made of pine or cedar or whatever locally available wood was used for such purposes.
It has a specific texture — rough in summer, possibly icy in winter, the grain of the wood visible and tactile.
It is connected to a farmhouse in a specific orientation relative to the wind and the north.
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