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Plumber Date

Emily Sanders Hopkins
May 17, 2023
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Cartoon by my husband Marshall, published in the New Yorker, January 14, 2008

Dear EWB Reader, tonight in my project to write and send to you a new story every day until August 12, I offer this installment that ends on a cliffhanger. Enjoy! And as I like to say, “Sleep tight and don’t let anything bite you.”

Plumber Date

It was a bit awkward to go on a da…

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