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David Rabe Reads John Updike

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Garden Swing, Wilma Anna?

Emma Foss met Georgine Yoder for the first time in 13 years. She showed him around her backyard, where he had played as a child with his mother and sister. Wilma Anna is still there all alone; she never married but now has a boyfriend. Foset felt responsible for this woman's solitude: "I'm going to avoid them if it takes me"

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