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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Different People”

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

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A Funeral Service Was Not a Tearful Event

Gilly had assumed that she would see Stu one final time, nestled inside a casket wearing his fanciest clothes. She was disappointed to learn there would be no coffin at all. The fragile, honest core of him retreating into the broad-shouldered frame of a solid family man. Gilly tried not to think about it as Lisa drove them home.

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