I begged them:
“Keep the money. Just give me
the photos of my family.”
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Lisa Mullenneaux’s poems and essays appear in AGNI, Ploughshares, The New England Review and elsewhere. She is the author of the critical study Naples’ Little Women: The Fiction of Elena Ferrante and has taught research writing for the University of Maryland’s Global Campus since 2015.
I begged them:
“Keep the money. Just give me
the photos of my family.”