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Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss the story 'Love' by William Maxwell, focusing on childhood lessons and the impermanence of things.

On this episode of "The Lonely Voice," Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss the story “Love” by William Maxwell. A man recalls his fifth-grade teacher—a young woman who was kind and thoughtful. She becomes the center of a very hard lesson the protagonist learns in childhood about the impermanence of things.

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