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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Old Hope”

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

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Running and Rumors

The narrator recounts a series of encounters with Hannah during their runs, including an awkward conversation about a rumor. The chapter then shifts to a memory of the narrator's nerve-wracking experience reading their final exam to an inscrutable English teacher. The chapter concludes with the narrator graduating and searching for their teacher in the crowd.

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