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Margaret Atwood Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Corey's Wife, Sadie Wolfe's, Was a Seducer

Sadie Wolfe's father had died, and the girl who used to work for her had gone off to find a city job. Corey approved of this, even giving her money for typing lessons so that she could better herself. Whether Sadie spent the money on typing lessons or on something else was not known, but she did continue to do housework. The man she had seen with his arm around Corey, when she came in to take the plates away or fix the fire is revealed to be Howard Wolfe’s wife.

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