The Hatchet
Its wooden handle curved out towards me like a hand offered by a woman on a dance floor.
“To bury the hatchet.” It’s a phrase meaning to end a quarrel and it’s derived from the Native American practice of burying one’s weapons to signal the end of fighting.
“I’m sitting in the front,” she told me.
I was holding the doorhandle but I let it go and I gave way for her to grab the handle, pull the door open and climb into the truck’s front passeng…
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