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George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Taking It Easy

Carl had chosen badly. This woman would want to talk. She took a tube of polomints from her pocket and offered him one, which he refused. We'd taken the kids to British Bay for a dip on Sunday, she went on - if we don't soon go the summer could get away from us. And we're taking them to my brother's dairy farm – they are so privileged nowadays. They say it's mental as she said this fine weather. Have you children yourself?

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