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Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue 88, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2014, 3941
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he didnt know how to thank me. I knew he was anxious and that he was
in a hurry, so I led him to the kitchen in order to give him the young
woman.
Together we put her into the casket that he had carried in and that we
filled with various objects from my house so that it would weigh what his
dead relative would weigh, if he had found him. Once wed finished, he
begged my discretion. I swore to it, as any good citizen would have done,
and I helped him carry the casket to the car belonging to the funeral
home, which was waiting for us outside.