Before: An Excerpt from Here Lies
OLIVIA CLARE FRIEDMAN
From before I began, I loved her. This was what I knew. Before the beginning, before I was born from her, before bones and blood and body, before egg. My mother Naomi was dead and not buried. Dead in fact for half a year. Her body burned to ashes by the state.
From before I began, I loved her. This was what I knew. Before the beginning, before I was born from her, before bones and blood and body, before egg. My mother Naomi was dead and not buried. Dead in fact for half a year. Her body burned to ashes by the state.
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