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This is a quieter one
written in America.

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"In the Museum."

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"On the morning of the
Kathe Kollwitz exhibit,

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a young man and woman come
into the museum restaurant.

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She is carrying a baby.

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He is carrying the airfreight
edition of The Sunday New York

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Times.

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She sits in a
high-backed, wicker chair,

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cradling the infant in her arms.

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He fills a tray with coffee
and white cups, fresh fruit,

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and some rolls, and
brings them to the table.

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His hair is tousled.

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Her eyes are puffy.

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They look like divers
coming up for air.

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He holds the baby.

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He holds the baby.

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She drinks some coffee,
scanning the front page,

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and butters a roll and eats it
slowly in their little corner

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in the sun.

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After a while, she
holds the child.

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He reads the Book Review
and eats some fruit.

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Then he holds the child
again while she smokes.

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They've hardly exchanged a look.

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Meanwhile, I have
fallen in love with

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this equitable arrangement,
and with the child, who

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cooperates by sleeping.

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All around them are the
faces Kathe Kollwitz

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carved in wood of people
who were suffering

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the numbness kinds of
suffering, and have

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no talent or capacity for it.

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But these people are
rereading the papers.

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The green has emerged in the
rind of their cantaloupe.

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And this morning,
everything seems possible."

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