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Story by Lisa Lerner, from the files of Yarn AudioWorks.
Lisa Lerner is the author of the novel Just Like Beauty. You can read her latest short story, Childhood, at www.swinkmag.com. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her daughter, a rabbit, and a bunch of stuff she probably doesn't need.
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Story by Lisa Lerner, from the files of Yarn AudioWorks.
Lisa Lerner is the author of the novel Just Like Beauty. You can read her latest short story, Childhood, at www.swinkmag.com. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her daughter, a rabbit, and a bunch of stuff she probably doesn't need.
Transcript
Lisa Lerner: There was a lot of stuff to deal with after my mother passed away. Physical, material stuff. She saved everything. She had closets full of stuff, cupboards, trunks full of stuff. I went around with a movie camera and I filmed all her belongings. She kept my grandmother’s shoes from when my grandmother was a younger woman. These old lady shoes. Old fashioned shoes. And I was like, do I throw out my... What am I gonna do with these? She had scarves. She had so many scarves. She loved beautiful silk scarves. And they were beautiful, but I don’t wear scarves. This is like a collection of scarves, what do I do with them? But then it became so much. It was like an avalanche. I thought, I gotta put some of this in a box and I’ll deal with it some other time.
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