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Gish Jen Reads Grace Paley

The New Yorker: Fiction

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A Little Kid, Papa and Mamma's Darling?

CNN's John Sutter sat down with a friend to talk about the death of his mother. He says she told him nothing in his life can compare to her loss, but he still misses her. She accused him of being lucky and said there was lots of time for him to be 'totally wrecked if i live' Writer: "I decided not to describe my mother's death," fearing an even more miserable response.

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