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“This year so far, I had said, Hello, Goodbye, Do you have change for twenty dollars, Where is the bathroom, and I love you. I had meant every word.”
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“The dating app has engineered what one might call an Enneagrammatical system of bookish star signs.”
“So that nowhere home is / Still ever on the way.”
“The first letter I sent to him was about a print that he’d made, which was in the archive—a Chagall-inspired Virgin Mary standing on a donkey.”
“I wondered briefly what fear was. Where on earth did it come from?”
“I had entered the bridge as my destination in the app on my iPhone but the phone led me here, to a parking lot and a sign, large, that reads, WELCOME TO ERVING on one side and, on the other, GREAT PLACE TO LIVE.”
“The kids saw the scars on his fingers, that big slice on his pinkie, proof of his diligent practice morning, midday, afternoon, and night.”