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Cristina Henríquez Reads “Everything is Far From Here”

Author
The New Yorker
Published
Tue 18 Jul 2017
Episode Link
https://the-new-yorker-the-writers-voice-new-fiction-from-the-ne.simplecast.com/episodes/cristina-henriquez-reads-everything-is-far-from-here-AST_b6v0

What if she’s forgotten what he looks like? What if she’s gone crazy? What if he’s here, lying in one of those cribs, and she sees him every single day without realizing he’s her son? What if it’s been too long? What if memory fails? What if everything fails, and getting through life is simply learning to cope with the failure? No, she scolds herself. Don’t think like that. Don’t let yourself give way.

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