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

Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

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

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The Relationship Between a Catholic and an Unwed Woman

He took her to the same restaurant, the same back booth. She assumed he meant with a doctor, but then he said, I'll get you an apartment, a nanny, even a night nurse. He'd said nothing about marriage, or himself, or the two of them. It sounds as if you're suggesting I raise a child alone as an unwed woman. That's not something I'd consider. But you don't mean to, he waved off an encroaching waiter. Marrying into my family is marrying a nightmare, even without the threats. They returned me a week later, $20,000. The proper thing to do in this situation would be to propose,.

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