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Great Expectations
Bringing someone back to life, going through fertility treatments, spending more time with family
June 1992Readers Write
Close Calls
Getting mugged in Central Park, doing angel dust, driving into a telephone pole
April 1992Readers Write
Prisons
Listening to the scamper of steps, the same question every fifteen seconds, the laughter of the guards
February 1992Readers Write
Whirlwind Romances
An eclipse, a single gardenia and an avocado, a fine blue Cadillac
December 1991Readers Write
Homecoming
A tiny duckling, a bullethole in the ceiling, chocolate chip cookies and bomb craters
November 1991Readers Write
Enemies
Shifting into gear and ramming a garbage can into the wall, buying a house together, playing apple-war games
October 1991
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