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Article: The Formalists.(Short story)
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- The Southern Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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Our father he worked in factories, he believed in automobiles, he lined us up like garden implements against the white wall of the garage, Rebecca, Colin, and me. He did that every year at Christmas, marked our heights with a carpenter's pencil, until the year I turned ten and the twins were eleven, all of us taller than the Dutch hoe, not so tall as the bow rake, which was the year our dear enfeebled mother requested an addition for the house, by which we thought perhaps she meant a puppy, we didn't have a clue. Two weeks later the garage burned down under what we knew even then to be mysterious circumstances. We lost all historical record of how tall we had been.
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