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Ivor Irwin teaches writing at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is a fanatical supporter of Manchester United Football Club, the only thing he misses about his hometown in Great Britain.
The thing Terry hates most about going back to England, even on vacations, is that it’s like coral: a living dead thing. There is sweet nothing to do. Football. Sky television. The cancer of the reminiscence.
“The Holocaust is boring, honey. I lost it with that last Louis Malle film. It’s as old as platform shoes. They trivialize it.” Carla isn’t Jewish. “You oppress yourself, honey.” I nodded.