by Amie Souza Reilly Laura Adai From the pen of Ms. Ana Lara Sousa 27 Church Street Essex, New York, 65143 June 12, 1994 Dear Mere, Last week, inside a book of May Swenson poems, I found a note on a slip of paper, written in your handwriting: “Yesterday, while we were at Semyon Alexeyitch’s, my wife made a very good joke about you, saying that Tatyana Petrovna and you were a pair of birds always on the wing.” I know this is Dostoyevsky but I do not know why it is inside this