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The phone is lost. My mother is finally dead.

The phone is lost. My mother is finally dead.

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Jul 20, 2021
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A man thrust his way past Clarissa onto the escalator in Grand Central, she rifled frantically through her bag for her phone. Shaking her head, she went to a booth where a police officer was sitting and emptied the bag’s contents onto the counter: hand cream, lipstick, a coin purse, a MetroCard holder, a dozen pennies, chewing gum, a Virgin Mary scapular, and a brush. My phone—I lost my phone.

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