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Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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My Father's Having an Operation, I Said.

Nicolaus Mills' father was diagnosed with cancer. His doctor and dog leash wanted the doctors in Toronto to take a look at him. When will they do it? I said day after tomorrow. He had done a complete turnaround overnight. The word 'shoreless seas' popped into his head, but he could not remember what kind of seas these were.

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