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How Could You Ever Be Fine

By Stephen Dobyns

"Right now you are either out there or you're not—

smoking a cigarette, touching a sore place, looking

from a window and letting all the old faces

drift across your mind. It is hard to think of you

dowdy and forty, the problems dealt with, a life

of some sort on track, hard to think of you making it

past twenty-five. At least in books we know the end,

know the characters died or got married, had great

success or failure. But you are out there ...