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S3E3 | Without Malice, Without Triumph (with Edward P Jones, Hilton Als, Amber Gray)

The Paris Review

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The Uncertainty of Life

John Smith's letter had told her to come in at 11 o'clock, his favorite time. She always obeyed the letters, even if the order now came from a dead man. For she knew people who had been temporarily cut off from SSI for not showing up or being late. Offer a crust of bread to a sick bird and you often draw back a bloody finger. "'You cut me,' he said, as if he had only been minding his own business when she cut him"

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