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by Michael Gessner It’s good you died when you did, or you would have lived to see your darling daughter’s demise in her prime, with two little ones in the next room, precious as honey in a hive. But you escaped—talk about an act of god—in medias res... More »
In cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked ’twixt son and father. —King Lear Mein lieber Sohn, I just found your ranting “Letter to His Father” hidden in your mother’s drawer. Too bad you didn’t have the... More »