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Readers Write
Dancing
Miss Valentine’s School of Social Dance, jitterbugging in Calcutta, the “big girl’s ward” in the crippled children’s hospital
November 1989Readers Write
Being Wrong
Hitting your sister, watching the rice boil, jumping over the subway turnstiles
October 1989Readers Write
Love Stories
A waterfall of words, an undergraduate literary magazine, untranslatable Olde English phrases
August 1989Readers Write
Breaking Up
Twenty-seven disembodied entities, Mars on a dark night, the Night Stalker
May 1989Readers Write
Duty
A rhinestone butterfly pin, an appointment for next Saturday, “Louie Louie”
March 1989
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