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Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado”

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

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The Consequences of Language

Addie, who wrote crime novels, said her stories were like there's no beginning or end really. At some point it just ends like, Colorene Colorado. It's something we say in Mexico at the end of children's stories - tequentos y aacabado. Addie had grown up thinking that she was missing the point of every story.

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