Day 719: plucking

She plucked the letter from her hand, and kept standing against her with it and the photos.

Artwork
Norman Rockwell : Willie Gillis Girls with Letters (1942)

Word of the day
pluck : to pull something, especially with a sudden movement, in order to remove it

Quote of the day
“He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina