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Sherman Alexie Reads Raymond Carver

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Old Guy and the Other Guye

i walked my girl friend to the front door and said, good bye. She's drunk, but i'm drunk too, and there's nothing i can do. Some guys look up from their t v, then slowly they shift back to what they were watching. Later that afternoon, the front door banged open and j p was brought in between these two big guys, his father in law and brother in law. They staered j p across the room. The old guy signed him in and gave frank mart n a check. Then these two guys helped j p upstairs. I guess they put him to bed. Pretty soon, the old guy and the other guye came downstairs and

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