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      Freeman’s

      Love

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      Love

      Est. 2015

      Edited by

      John Freeman

      Grove Press

      New York

      Copyright © 2020 by John Freeman

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      Published simultaneously in Canada

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Grove Atlantic edition: October 2020

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available for this title.

      ISBN 978-0-8021-5783-6

      eISBN 978-0-8021-5784-3

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      Contents

       Introduction

      John Freeman

       Seven Shorts

       Maaza Mengiste

       Daniel Mendelsohn

       Anne Carson

       Mariana Enriquez

       An Yu

       Tommy Orange

       Matt Sumell

       “Heaven with a Capital H”

      Mieko Kawakami

       Postcard from New Mexico

      Deborah Levy

       Snowflake

      Semezdin Mehmedinovic´

       Stone Love

      Louise Erdrich

       The Snowman

      Daisy Johnson

       Poet’s Biography

      Valzhyna Mort

       Apples

      Gunnhild Øyehaug

       Exploding Cigar of Love

      Sandra Cisneros

       On a Stone Pillow

      Haruki Murakami

       How to Manage

      Niels Fredrik Dahl

       Good People

      Richard Russo

       High Fidelity

      Robin Coste Lewis

       Seams

      Olga Tokarczuk

       swan

      Andrew McMillan

       Contributor Notes

       About the Editor

       Introduction

      John Freeman

      The first time I sent a love letter, I misspelled “love.”

      Or nearly did.

      This would have been around 1979. I was lacing up my shoes to sprint over to my classmate Betsy’s house when my mother found me. Where are you going? I hadn’t yet learned to feel ashamed of myself, so I told her.

      I’m going to put a love letter in her mailbox.

      Can I see?

      My mother spoke that way. Not, let me see; or hand it here. But, can I see? I showed her the love letter.

      Oh honey, you might want to change this. You spell “love” like this.

      She wrote the

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