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

Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”

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

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I Love My Job So Much, I Said

The parrot human told me that he had researched what I had shared with him, and that his bird did not have chlamydia. Kelly was finishing her lemon popsicle with her left hand, and tapping at her keyboard with her right. Such encounters are very fear-inducing for me. A benevolent listener might worry that I was overreacting to a single unhappy client's owner caretaker. And this parent owner is going to try to separate me from this thing that I love most. This job, I believe, is the best use of me on the planet.

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