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S3E1 | A Memory of the Species (with Robert Frost, Yohanca Delgado, Antonella Anedda)

The Paris Review

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Andres, the Love of My Life, Moaned

Andres and Shireel met a little widow in the hallway of her apartment building. She wore a silk dressing gown embroidered with human hearts the size of silver dollars. Andres hobbled after her on his knees, making mournful sounds. He said: You're the love of my life; are you mine? The little widow looked at him as if he were a turd on the sidewalk. We thought we'd never seen a man renounce his dignity quite so definitively.

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