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Investigating conscientious-objector status, attending a rock festival, plucking strychnine tufts from a bag full of peyote buttons
By Our ReadersApril 1991A three-thousand-pound slab, a pair of sunglasses and a book, a sprouting of wings
By Our ReadersMarch 1991A huge beach umbrella, a Methodist church parking lot, a fire hydrant
By Our ReadersJanuary 1991Picture days in grade school, summers on fire lookouts, Saturday afternoons at the movies
By Our ReadersDecember 1990A repressed memory, a custody battle, a summer on the prairies
By Our ReadersNovember 1990Having a room of one’s own, eating compulsively, scribbling
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