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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Eric Paul

Wider

October 22, 2014

Eric Paul

I’m a scarecrow in the middle of the endless field of my wife’s beautiful faces. I want to enjoy the landscape of her but two crows are arguing on my shoulders. One has my mother’s voice. The other speaks in … Continued

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