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December 6, 2006

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Things My Father Has Said to Me in Crowded Restaurants

by Erica Korey

I’m leaving your mother.

I had a vasectomy.

I did a lot of cocaine in the ’80s.

I got married last week.

I’m having angioplasty tomorrow.

I may be going to prison.

I thought you were doing Weight Watchers.

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