SUSAN PERABO lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and is writer-in-residence and associate professor of English at Dickinson College. Her short-story collection, Who I Was Supposed to Be (Simon & Schuster), was named a “Book of the Year” by the Los Angeles Times. She once shoved then-New Jersey governor Christie Todd Whitman out of the way to get the last doughnut at a breakfast buffet.

This Is Not That Story

by Susan Perabo, March 2006 (Issue 363)