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Home / Lacrimae rerum

Lacrimae rerum

by Christopher Kempf
Issue #128
Winter 2015-16
tears for things As for empathy, it was breakfast that taught me first the feelings of objects. Each wet Cheerio floated there despairing, it seemed, to be—bare raft—wrenched like that from its family. Food was just the beginning. I pitied...

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