A WRITER'S WIT |
New Yorker Fiction 2017
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A father and son are in a horrible car crash that kills the dad. The son is rushed to the hospital; just as he’s about to go under the knife, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate—that boy is my son!”
Photograph by Grant Cornett.
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