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Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed”

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

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The Story of a Newborn

The community was just a little too close for her, and if you were an outsider, it was almost impossible to break through. Trips back to nova scotia were part of the routine. She really did like his parents and the house with the wood stove. But she'd made it clear early on that she could never live there full time. It's not for me, she explained. Mat had five brothers and sisters, some of them married to locals,. There was already a second wave of children starting p and she had a hard time keeping it all straight.

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