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

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The Death of a Middle-Aged Woman

Olive watched this from the edge of the parking lot. After a few minutes she made her way to Anne who looked up at her, the baby asleep in her arms. Olive realized that this girl, this tall, strange girl who was a middle-aged woman, was grieving. She had no idea what to do, but then she decided that she would try to sit next to Anne and eventually got herself seated.

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