Notes from the author’s imprisonment in Belarus.
Bill and Lyla had graduated, gotten married, and departed directly for Europe. Lyla’s parents had given them a thousand dollars to spend on a honeymoon, sowing the seeds for months of argument. Bill wanted an adventure, but Lyla, who had...
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All I can do to keep from believing where, in truth, your last steps led,
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my little grandmother knows no pain she believes that hunger—is food
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