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By Asad Chishti Brooklyn Donations November 25, 2012

For Sale

Hemingway once won a bet, they say, by writing a story in under 10 words:
For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.

He considered it his best work.

As we labeled and sorted the boxes.
I remembered it.

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