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    THE DENIAL OF DEATH

    Sep 15, 2018 3 minutes
    Louise Glück

    1. A Travel Diary

    I had left my passport at an inn we stayed at for a night or so whose name I couldn’t remember. This is how it began. The next hotel would not receive me. A beautiful hotel, in an orange grove, with a view of the sea. How casually you accepted the room that would have been ours, and, later, how merrily you stood on the balcony, pelting me with foil-wrapped chocolates. The next day you resumed the journey we would have taken together.

    The concierge procured

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