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

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Mary Jane, a Girl's Bike?

Even daniel had wanted to ask this soon after they eloped, 19 75. But it felt like mary jane was an introduction that had gone by too quickly. She told him her mother and father were lively retirees who played racket sports on week ends with a circle of friends. And as a child, she travelled through oklahoma with a magician. He said he knew nothing about flirting either. They walked along the lake front despite the cold in the brutal wind off the lake by the bicycle rack - is this a girl's bike? On their first date at the student union,. or maybe later, while they smoked cigarettes and stood rond the quad, tooCold in the brutal

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