Eternal Spring
by: Jeffrey Ferris
Frau Schmidt always arose at seven-thirty. However, before first light her cat Schatzi would watch the open window of their bedroom in hopes of surprising a hummingbird in the nearby flowering bushes. The window was always left open at night because the nighttime temperature in Panajachel, Guatemala, is usually like a balmy spring evening in Frau Schmidt's hometown of Stuttgart in southwest Germany. She hadn’t seen Stuttgart since 1945 when she had fled her war-ravaged native land for refuge in Guatemala....
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