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Carol Rifka Brunt

Carol Rifka Brunt is originally from New York and now lives with her husband and three children in a small house on a hill in British Columbia, Canada. She is currently at work on a novel and a collection of essays of which “Human Services” is the title piece.

— From October 2002
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Human Services

When I first spot Glen on the Monashee Rail Trail, I almost wave to him. Then I stop myself, think better of it, and decide to pass him by. It’s OK. After all, a whole year has passed since I last saw Glen, and I am a new person: mother, wife, nonsmoker; my hair cut to shoulder length, my face free of makeup. It is all right to walk right past Glen.

October 2002
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