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Mitzvah (wc:55)


by Mary Guterson


So, how did they meet?

After years and years of starvation and gruesomeness and lack of human contact because there were no humans left, only walking corpses, a woman gently lifted the sixty-pound dead man's penis with a cool washrag and wiped him clean.

The dead man opened his eyes.

I love you, he said.

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