by Рэй Брэдбери
He moved away from the town the next week and gone for sixteen years. Though he was only fifty miles away, he never got down to Green Town again until he was almost thirty and married, and then one spring they were driving through on their way to Chicago and stopped off for a day.
Bob left his wife at the hotel and walked around town and finally asked about Miss Ann Taylor, but no-one remembered at first, and then one of them remembered.
«Oh, yes, the pretty teacher. She died in 1936, not longer after you left.»
Had she ever married? No, come to think of it, she never had.
He walked out to the cemetery in the afternoon and found her stone, which said «Ann Taylor, born 1910, died 1936.» And he thought, twenty-six years old. Why I'm three years older than you are now, Miss Taylor.
Later in the day the people in the town saw Bob Spaulding's wife strolling to meet him under the elm trees and the oak trees, and they all turned to watch her pass, for her face shifted with bright shadows as she walked; she was the fine peaches of summer in the snow of winter, and she was cool milk for cereals on a hot early-summer morning. And this was one of those rare few days in time when the climate was balanced like a maple leaf between wind that blow just right, one of those days that should have been named, everyone agreed, after Robert Spaulding's wife.
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