Babel
Michael Romano, Milton Läufer & all the contributors to BAR

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The children liked all the activity, the buzzing around them: fast, busy, numbing. You text quick as a kid. Christ is a palm tree, for he has hair and has already grown to his full height.
This is what precipitates Natalie’s fall, her husband’s discovery of the private email account that she uses to arrange threesomes with people of varying genders looking for a black woman between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. Widener is not only a place of study and one of the largest reservoirs of books and periodicals in the world, it’s also a memorial.
This is what precipitates Natalie’s fall, her husband’s discovery of the private email account that she uses to arrange threesomes with people of varying genders looking for a black woman between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. Widener is not only a place of study and one of the largest reservoirs of books and periodicals in the world, it’s also a memorial.