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  1. Armistead Maupin _ Mary Ann in Autumn

    Your hair has always been amazing. I remember those fabulous chopsticks you used to wear."Anna wore a look of amused chagrin. "I'm afraid Mr. Greenleaf won't let me wear those anymore. I took a little tumble one night and almost harpooned the cat."This was very much the Anna she remembered: warm and self-mocking and complete present. And somehow that made it even harder to accept how frail she'd become since Mary Ann's last visit.
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  2. Katherine Dunn _ Geek Love

    It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.
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  3. John Banville _ The Sea

    There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not anymore. Now I'm startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never at all the one that I expect. I have been elbowed aside by a parody of myself, a sadly dishevelled figure in a Halloween mask made of sagging, pinkish- grey rubber that bears no more than a passing resemblance to the image of what I look like that I stubbornly retain in my head.
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