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Brazil’s Elections and the Human Condition (opens the original)
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Some Thoughts About Language (opens the original)
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“You Killed Joe” and Other Stories (opens the original)
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Deaths of Despair and the Coming New World (opens the original)
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Astrid and the Brooklyn Bridge (opens the original)
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Astrid and the Brooklyn BridgeAround the time I turned 60 I lived alone in a small urban apartment, just big enough to give my two dogs the spare room. I hadn’t been alone like that for a long time, more than 25 years, and it was not a particularly good time for me. Still, things turned out ok later on and I wound up with some pretty good stories.This is one of those stories, and while some of the information in it is not factually correct, most of it is true—just some details are different from
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