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Gruel

by Marilyn Chin
Issue #45
Spring 1988
Your name is Diana Toy. And all you may have for breakfast is rice gruel. You can't spit it back into the cauldron for it would be unfilial. You can't ask for yam gruel for there is none. You can't...

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