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S3E1 | A Memory of the Species (with Robert Frost, Yohanca Delgado, Antonella Anedda)

The Paris Review

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The Little Wife's Key

Five days before the wedding, Lucy woke up in the middle of the night to find Andres standing at the foot of her bed. He had come in with a little widow's key, he said, and he had come in to see her. For two days, the little widow didn't speak or eat or sleep. She's subsisted on a nightly glass of Morir Sonando, which she drank to appease Lucy. The girl blamed herself for everything and thought it a small penance to squeeze the orange juice for the little widow's drink.

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