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

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The Life of Lorraine and Quent

Lorraine took great pleasure in spending the money she'd set aside for redoing the house. Quent was surprisingly sentimental it turned out about their shared family past. She kept her coat on at first when she got to the new house which smelled of fresh paint and was chilly until the heating kicked in around the radiators. It hardly seemed possible to connect the owner of this gracious place with the woman who'd once believed she was so desperately in love. Obviously it would be best to throw the letter away on red. Her first instinct on picking the letter up from the door map was to get rid of it without reading it. Who wrote letters anymore? Its arrival on that very day was

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