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The first short story is called bettering myself. It’s about an alcoholic Teacher who’s losing her grip, and isolate itself in a bar. Isolation theme, defending a child. Odd. Holding onto an ex-husband, who eventually pays her to stay away. She’s lonely. In the story ends with her eating, pickled onions in a bar and rips up her letter of resignation at the school. “The sun shone on“