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FICTION
posted 6/24/2002
Francie used to talk about the Wailing Wall, Israel, life on the kibbutz. She had
gone there once and picked weeds for a summer. She showed me a slide
show her parents had put together of a family trip to Jerusalem. She shot the
slides against the white wall of the playroom, bright squares of light and
desert, and afterward let me work through the zipper of her jeans, gold teeth
clawing the back of my hand. This was in New Jersey, a long way from Israel.
