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

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The Mirror Frame

After being instructed to decipher literature for three years, i wanted to practise something based upon palpable laws and immutable principles. I wasn't especially adept at it, but i liked wolding and forging, and by combining the two techniques, i produced a surprisingly acceptable mirror frame. However, over all, my boy friend and i weren't very happy living where we were unless were prepared to get on with things in the normal way. People would often presume you were up to something fishy. And life in an unremarkable english town could be thoroughly grim and demoralizing. It's not at all pleasant to feel incessantly judged and distrusted. We both worked night shifts in a paint supply warehouse

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