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Dean Faulkner Wells, who has put down here William Faulkner’s ghost story “The Werewolf as he told it to her and her cousin Jill (Mr. Bill’s daughter) and her cousin Vicki and the other children of Oxford, is Mr. Bill’s niece. She was named after her father Dean, who was Mr. Bill’s youngest and favorite brother. Ten years separated the two brothers, but they were very close and enjoyed one another’s company in many moods and moments. Dean Swift Faulkner was killed in an airplane crash when he …
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“and I would lean in close and tell you that John Wick kills women like / he’s read feminist theory”
“In all its diverse forms, paper has accompanied our civilizations, enabling us not only to drink but to write, to remember.”
“Life without God’s love is like a donut, ’cause there’s a hole in the middle of your heart!”
“I swam fast toward the rocks—the sting of a jellyfish couldn’t be worse than listening to him go on about his mother.”
“And Cathay was not China. / And Vietnam was not China / Nor made in China—but close enough.”