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Michael Lowenthal
Michael Lowenthal is the author of four novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl (a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice†and Washington Post “Top Fiction of 2007†pick), and The Paternity Test (an IndieNext List selection and a Lambda Literary Award finalist). The recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers’ conferences, the MacDowell Colony, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Lowenthal teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. He can be reached at www.michaellowenthal.com.
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Used-Car Salesman
I wondered if he understood my joke, or its evasion, but surely he knew a used-car salesman always fudged his story. In fact, the car had been in my possession all of three weeks. Also, it didn’t exactly belong to…