TriQuarterly, September 22nd, 1998
Arlene could've got Aunt Mag just as easy, we both pass by the home on the way in to Possett, but no one was about to ask Arlene, what with the nose ring and her dragging home one long-haired smokey boyfriend after another and anyway they all make such a deal about her being in college for seven years getting all these degrees about nothing, so never mind that she's three years older than me and never mind my sick baby, no, they ask me because no one is going to trouble Arlene's big old Northwestern brain with something as piss-ant Alabama little as picking Aunt Mag up for Gran's birthday, or ...
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