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Allegra Goodman Reads “The Last Grownup”

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

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Are You Going to Find Out Whether It's a Boy or a Girl?

The three of them met at the abandoned luncheonette. Richard could have been talking about Lily, but Heather didn't seem offended. Deborah asked, are you going to find out whether it's a boy or a girl? They spoke at the same time. I love the girls so much, Heather was saying. She wanted to include them when we get engaged. The next weekend, she had in her possession a folder with a proposal and printed two copies on archival paper.

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