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

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I Don't Know Where the Pumpkin Patch Is, Can You Send Directions?

The same person had messaged me over the summer, after I'd posted about being somewhere teaching a summer class. The town was on the ocean, and there were clumps of bright pink sweet peas on the sides of all the roads. He mentioned the currents, the air, how good his body felt whenever he was there. "I didn't seem to know him," she wrote in her email reply. 'How could I have known? Obviously I couldn't'

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