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S3E3 | Without Malice, Without Triumph (with Edward P Jones, Hilton Als, Amber Gray)

The Paris Review

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The Importance of Being a Human Being

The Social Security people sent her a letter, again signed by John Smith, telling her to come to them one week hence. George Carter came the day she got the letter to present her with a cassette machine and copies of the tapes they had made about her life. She was certain it took so long because she really did not want to know how to use it. That evening, after her dinner, she steal'd herself and put a tape marked, parents' early childhood in the machine.

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