"What should I write?" old Mrs. Gumbeiner shrugged. "I’ll write that the weather is lovely out here and that we are both, Blessed be the Name, in good health."
The old man nodded his head slowly, and they sat together on the front porch in the warm afternoon sun.
(1955)
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Acknowledgements
Projects of this sort are, more than usual, a team effort. Thanks go to everyone involved at Head of Zeus: Nicolas Cheetham, Christian Duck, Jennifer Edgecombe, Clare Gordon, Jade Gwilliam, Sabir Huseynbayli, Ben Prior, Rachel Thorne and Nikky Ward.
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