hegel's dialectic, part two: antithesis

over the course of six summers, heff and dité fall in love. over the course of one, ares grows himself a root.

summer passed the way it had passed for as long as heff could remember: in late may, before he even got back from college, heff’s parents made the move out to east hampton. he swung by the house in park slope, dropped his bags, and then rendezvoused with julia, the housekeeper, to take the train out after them.

but let’s back up. 

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heff was kind of a town…