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Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Is Death a Mercy When It's Time?

"I don't fear death. I assume the other side of the door is okay," he says. "Terriers are deranged animals who could probably teach us a lot about how brains pointlessly track small movements and changes" The first of the leaping dogs that night was a terrier mix, seven years old. He smelled like skunk but his human parent reported not seeing any skunk after having retrieved sushi from his jump over the bridge.

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