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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 Having a Crib

Olive checked the bathroom, made sure there were clean towels. How could they not need a crib? God would have messed that place had been. Annabelle was almost four now, Theodore was six. What did a six-year-old boy like to do? And why were there so many children? Olive went to Christopher and put her arms around him but he stepped back.

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