This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2004 by Christine Schutt

Excerpt from “The Summer Anniversaries” appeared in Donald Justice, The Summer Anniversaries (Middleton, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1960), and is reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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