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August 1989 Issue
August 1989 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Real War 1939-1945
    Paul Fussell
  • Kids as Capital
    Jonathan Rauch
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  • Environment: Saving the Gracids
    Natalie Angier
  • 745 Boylston Street
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Fiction

Someplace Like New Jersey

Maybe the only thing worse than Mother’s disappearance was the possibility that she might come back

By Deborah Chanley Weiss
August 1989 Issue
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