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Susan Perabo lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and is writer-in-residence and associate professor of English at Dickinson College. Her short-story collection, Who I Was Supposed to Be (Simon & Schuster), was named a “Book of the Year” by the Los Angeles Times. She once shoved then–New Jersey governor Christie Todd Whitman out of the way to get the last doughnut at a breakfast buffet.
They’d made it through all the Michaels, Carrie and Dan believed. They’d made it through Michael J. Fox’s comeback and Michael Vick’s arrest and Michael Douglas’s cancer, made it through the terrible summer when Michael Phelps won all those gold medals in swimming, and then the next terrible summer when Michael Jackson died on every channel for days and days.
February 2013The boy fell from the dormitory balcony sometime between two o’clock and four o’clock in the morning. It had already been snowing for several hours, and it continued to snow after he lay on the ground, so that by the time the dirty white truck rumbled up to the residential quad at 6:15 and three men — the university groundskeepers — climbed wearily from the back, armed with shovels, the snow was nearly six inches deep.
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