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The package that arrived before it was sent
The package that arrived before it was sent
A flat-rate Priority mailer sits on Wendy Lane's porch with a postmark dated Wednesday, May third-but she found it Tuesday morning. Inside: a four-dollar Penguin Classics edition of Chekhov and a note from Angela Simmons, a rare book dealer in Edinburgh who had just convinced Wendy to wire six thousand dollars for a customs emergency. But Angela Simmons never existed. How did a man in Georgia spend six months building a false identity around obscure Chekhov scholarship to penetrate a community where Wendy finally felt genuinely known?
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