I met Alison in 3rd grade in Gaithersburg, MD. I loved her face, the way she got all her homework done and did this criss-cross thing with her arms when she walked down the halls of Watkins Mill Elementary with the other smart girls (a prefiguring for me of Albertine and her band of female friends on the beach at Balbec), the way she played Für Elise an…
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