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Fresh Water from the Sea

by Ramona Ausubel
Issue #127
Summer 2015
The woman was weeks away. Maybe even days away. The phone calls at first were difficult to understand. “You shouldn’t worry about this, but I’m getting thinner,” she said to her daughter, but instead of the note of excitement the...

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