S2E4 | Lift and Fall (with Tennessee Williams, Charles Wright, Bill Callahan, J.M. Holmes, Anne Sexton, and Jenny Slate)
The Paris Review
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The Importance of Laughing
"When I was hitting, yeah, I tried to catch up. He called me a nigger," she says of her ex-boyfriend. "I wanted her so bad, he said. She tried to turn her face toward me and I just buried it deeper." 'It's like I couldn't stop,' Maddy recalls him saying as they walked down the street in New York City. The pair were on their way home from his parents' house when things turned ugly.
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