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Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Do You Think Janet Is Reproducing This Relationship

Janet has a very similar appraising stare I suppose we know that Nicola has failed to strive. She's dropped out of the conservatory she became a cocktail waitress, maybe on drugs and perhaps feels judged in the same way by her mother. Do you think Janet realizes that she's reproducing this relationship? "Both she and the father they even sort of bond over it where he says you know stay out of your children's business"

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