-swallowed-dixie-s Spit-drenched — Display -10.13...

So the next time you hear “Dixie,” whether as a melody or a brand of paper cups, remember: someone, somewhere, on a night in mid-October, swallowed its spit-drenched display so you wouldn’t have to. Or perhaps so you would feel it, too, lodged in your throat.

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She swallowed.

Days later, she discovered the smallest of her losses: a matchbox tucked inside a drawer with the initials of a boy she once loved. The matchbox was empty. A week after that, she could not summon the melody to the lullaby her mother had sung when Dixie was five, when the grain silo flashed like a lighthouse in the dark. She would hum around the hole like someone running a finger over a missing tooth. So the next time you hear “Dixie,” whether