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| | The New Yorker: Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Cat is a year older than Maddy, a New Yorker in a fl trenchcoat, thick fl-framed glasses, and short blond hair; by now, she has managed to erase all signs of her poor Midwestern childhood. |
 | | Cat was an inconsistent girl, often calling Maddy to persuade her to come to the movies, but snapping in irritation if Maddy tried to invade her own solitude. |
 | | Cat, old herself, round and grumpy in a large apartment filled with Caribbean art, her white hair done up in a kerchief, still stubborn in her belief that Maddy should be cherished, a belief that does not come from mere loyalty. |
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