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

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The Man Who Runs Greek Diner

The diner was on a rise above the river, as he'd remembered. But it was almost completely covered in cudsoo which looked to be pulling down the nearby electric lines. The man who ran greek diner had decorated the place with her own folk art,. collaged with bird appliquets, disney characters and bible verses. He could go there again. Jenny did not live here any more, but she'd loved that diner. When he got to nashville, where he was going in order to see her, he could tell her that he'd gone back there.

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