By Julia Zarankin

Julia Zarankin's nonfiction has appeared in The Threepenny Review, PRISM International, and the Antioch Review. In her past life, which ended in 2008, she taught Russian literature at the University of Missouri. Now she lives, writes and watches birds with gusto in Toronto.

  1. At our last session, Sarah suggests I join group of like-minded people. Maybe that way, she tells me, I could meet friends who aren’t necessarily colleagues and possibly one of those new-found friends might have a friend of her own that she might consider worthy of my company, and maybe she’d introduce us, and it might be awkward at first, as these things so often are, but perhaps after a drink or a

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