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Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation”

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

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I Was Too Young to Find Any Forgiveness for a Murder

Griselda's daughters arrived while she was in the hospital. The doctors had induced a medical coma to help her brain heal, but the prognosis wasn't good. They saw me waiting as they pulled into the drive and got out of the car spiky with rage. But i was too young to find in my heart any forgiveness for a murder. She said that in every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death.

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