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Margaret Atwood Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The End of You and Me, Corey Said.

After Corey's father died, the shoe factory had been taken over by a large firm that promised to keep it running. Within a year, however, the building was empty. Such equipment as was wanted moved to another town and there was nothing left except a few outmoded tools for making boots and shoes. Corey got into her head to establish a quaint little museum to display these things. She herself would set it up and give tourists describing how things used to be done. It turned out that the contract she thought she had, he is the building, so long as a certain amount of the rent was paid, did not allow her to display or appropriate any objects found within the building,. no

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