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I found Alice sitting on an Adirondack chair on the front porch. Her elbow rested on the armrest, her cheek pressed to her fist, and her eyes were glued to the relentless rain that had been pouring all day.
"Hey, mind if I join you?"
She turned her head toward me, lips stretching into a small smile.
"I can use some company."
I plopped into the chair beside her, my nose picking up that warm smell of desert rain. We stayed quiet for a few minutes before Alice broke the silence.
"I love the smell of rain."
"Who doesn’t?" I dragged my eyes over her, but her brown ones stayed fixed on the torrent spilling off the roof, hitting the ground hard and forming small puddles.
"It’s uncommon for it to rain this long around here. Usually it’s brief, but nothing less dramatic or heavy."
