
Caleb Crain Reads “Easter”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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Parkinson's Disease
Jacob and alice's grandmother had clipped another woman's car recently. Jacob wondered how her first year of high school was going. For all i know she might not even be able to walk, his mother continued. Remember the time he brought her off the plane in a wheel chair and they hadn't said anything about it at the time? Her father had been dosing her mother heavily with a new drug that he was very taken with. Fortunately, the use of her mother's legs and most of her vision had come back a few months after she stopped taking the medication. And i think he might be having trouble talking. How could he not talk? Alice asked, she understands him? Their
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