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Kristen Gleason is from California. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, A Public Space, The White Review, and elsewhere.
“I wanted his body to begin and end elsewhere, at home, meaning his home, wherever that was, meaning even I, whose job was to include him, wanted him out.”
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