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Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed”

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

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Then a Roast Turkey Dinner on a 90 Degree Day

Amy could tell from the smell that greet had done everything right and somehow managed to bring it all in on time. The table was set with the good blue and white plates, and there were water glasses with stems. Boiled carrots sliced into circles, not strips, brockly, not asparagus. Everything done the way matt's family did things. Greet led them straight from the door to the table. He gestured toward the contraption in greet's condo. Beside the basket of slippers. Thank you so much for all this, greet, mat said, all the work, but you really shouldn't have. We only wanted to see you and for you to see

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