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Verona, A Young Woman Speaks

by Harold Brodkey

I know a lot! I know about happiness! I don’t mean the love of God, either. I mean I know the human happiness with the crimes in it.

 

Even the happiness of childhood.

 

I think of it now as a cruel, middle-class happiness.

 

Let me describe one time – one day, one night.

© 2018 Christopher Sweet

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