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if all else fails I can just become a realtor

“Well, if all else fails I can just become a realtor,” Maya chirped. He stopped wheeling the cart.

“Sorry?” he said.

“I’m kidding. I mean, maybe I will become a realtor, married with two kids in my twenties,” Maya said. “I can see it.”

“No, you will not,” Priscilla said. “You’re too talent…

—p.36 The Paris Review, Issue 254, Winter 2025 The Junior Realtor (27) missing author
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raising money for wetland and mangrove preservation

One day, at Jim Wesson Jr.’s encouragement, Paul and a couple of the agents on his team set up a booth at a community fundraiser at a racquet club. It was vaguely environmental in purpose, raising money for wetland and mangrove preservation while being sponsored by several of the companies responsi…

—p.34 The Junior Realtor (27) missing author
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Wharton quants accredited by Brooks Brothers inspo/funny

We realized then that our decision was becoming more complicated. All the toolbars we were interviewing were more obnoxious than anyone tech. They were not smart, just articulate, mouth vectored, conventionally staffable. Wharton quants accredited by Brooks Brothers, displaying their lobbying aptit…

—p.286 Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
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a public-relations nightmare for the CIA

The whole thing was a public-relations nightmare for the CIA, which was forced to deny ordering over eighty kiloliters of beer delivered to Martyr’s Park in downtown Ottawa. Mulroney’ s men confiscated all our documents, and then they began killing us. Vu was thrown down an ice crevasse, Scotty was…

—p.324 The Paris Review, Issue 158, Spring/Summer 2001 The Canadanaut, Part II (308) missing author
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l’espace ressemble à l’uterin

“Wouldn’cha know he missed the moon,” Vu said, “by about a heck of a lot, eh.”

“Make you now an around turn,” I said to Jacques. “U-turn.”

“Oui,” he said. “L’espace ressemble à l’uterin. L’acte du creation est tres evident. ”

—p.324 The Canadanaut, Part II (308) missing author