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

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Grandad Jay's Tea

Jacob was put in a guest room where the childhood bed of one of his aunts now lay next to a console that was serving as his grandfather's desk. On top of the pile of papers were a few dozen photo copies of a single page, jacob palm cron witcherly junior m d Curriculum viti. When i was little, i didn't dare put sugar in my tea, she told alice, are you an orphan? Mother would ask us what did she mean? You know, iam not completely sure. Was this during the depression? Jacob asked, not telling granddad jay waved a hand over jacob and alice? Are you

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