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Lorrie Moore
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Birds of America: Stories
The speech she made was done in the back, alone, like little shoes cobbled by an elf: spider is to web as weaver is to blank. That one was hers. She was proud of that. Also, blank is to heartache as forest is to bench. But
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Lorrie Moore
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Birds of America: Stories
She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush. Still,
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Lorrie Moore
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Birds of America: Stories
This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in the people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. They played around and lied to their spouses. But they recycled their newspapers!
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Lorrie Moore
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Birds of America: Stories
Get a Job, she shouted silently to God. Get a real Job.
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Lorrie Moore
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Birds of America: Stories
She had already-carefully, obediently-stepped through all the stages of bereavement: anger, denial, bargaining, Häagen-Dazs, rage.
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