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Sandwich by Catherine Newman
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When someone went to bed in the book I was reading—climbed under the duvet and closed their eyes—I cried. I daydreamed about hotel beds. I daydreamed about being hospitalized. I daydreamed about running away. In a novel, I would have waved ...more
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