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Elizabeth Strout Reads "Motherless Child"

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

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The Importance of Being a Christian

Olive felt a niggling of doubt. Why was she marrying Jack? What difference did it make? Christopher said, Mom, you invited us up here just to tell us that, didn't you? I haven't seen you since your father's funeral. She looked at her computer, finding the word narcissism in the dictionary. It said self-admiration and personality disorder. Olive didn't understand this. The entire night went by, and she stared at the dark,. shifting only a few times.

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