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Something About Ecology

by Matthew Lippman
Issue #128
Winter 2015-16
Everybody seems to be pointing things at one another these days. The cop with the radar gun pointed his radar gun at my car and my car pointed back, its rearview mirror, to give the policeman an idea of what...

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