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

Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed”

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

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Is Everyone Here Absolutely Sure They Don't Need Anything Else?

Great looked at ella and made a contorted smiling expression. She repeated the same words into the baby's sodden face, but this time in that sing song, up and down, fake happy tone only when they are talking to infants. Such a fuss, she said, for me and everyone else,. You wouldn't believe it, the things we had to come through. People wouldn't give me the time o day 60 years ago. Now they leave me with all this. But then i guess they're all dead now. This came out in a flat, matter of fact tone. It's like none of it ever happened.

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