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

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Lorraine's Memoirs

Lorraine had confided in her friend Carol a single woman who knew about those other affairs and had promised to vacate her flat. She wanted to lean back then and there into his embrace and reach up her mouth to be kissed but didn't quite have the nerve. In case she was just deluded and imagining it all or in case she was too old for him or not good looking enough he seemed blindingly youthful and beautiful to her that afternoon. The two glasses of wine she drunk played a part no doubt in this whirlpool of sensations. Lorraine thought if I don't see him again after Kalam's exam I'll die. Her life would be stopped up as if

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