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

Matthew Klam Reads “The Other Party”

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

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The Pandemic of MS and Parkinson's

I was healthy, and I clung to my health and loved it. Your health is the only thing that matters, truly, unless you have it, in which case it's irrelevant. With Terry, I'd developed a plan for enduring the weeks and months and whatever lay ahead. Then last year, in the fall, during the peak of the pandemic, her dad died of COVID. She had to drive out to the Maryland boonies to pick up her parents' mail while her mom was in mourning in Florida. It was like something from a horror movie, except that it was actually from real life.

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