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The Dead Book by Jane Churchon

September 4, 2016 / By rnjanern / In / 5 Comments

Flatline heart monitor

I like to take my time when I pronounce someone dead.
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No Marketable Skills

September 4, 2016 / By John Zussman / In / 32 Comments

“What are you going to do?” they asked. “You’re an academic!"
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Lucky’s Afghans: a 20th-century disaster

September 2, 2016 / By Charles Degelman / In / 5 Comments

How do you reconcile heartbreak and fear, sadness and jeopardy, and the sense that everything is ending? You don’t.
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The End of the Innocence

August 31, 2016 / By Suzy / In / 17 Comments

On this particular November Friday, we were sitting in home ec class learning how to make salad dressing.
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