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David Means Reads Lorrie Moore

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Greatest Generation Did Not Do Fake, False, Love You

The greatest generation had taken a lot of orders early in life and did not want to take any more. My father was too old to grasp technology so the nurses were the ones to place his FaceTime calls according to the schedule that Livy had given them. Delia refused to be a part of it: I can't watch Dad like this, she'd said again that day.

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