The New Yorker – May 13, 2019

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TYPOGRAPHY BY NICO SCHWEIZER

PHOTOGRAPH BY TANIA FRANCO KLEIN

FICTION

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metal.

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too

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it to examine the bloodied knuc

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didn

let her out;

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her ba

the lip

hand,

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pine m

near

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and div

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watc

jump ea

the swimmers leaped off the bloc

lo

bodies as the slo

hind the

swim a spr

fast,

and couldn

tr

no lo

since

br

with her hand as the

next lane at pr

h

slo

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to switc

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