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Assez Vu
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41 ASSEZ VU At Café Vanille I buy a pastry topped with the sun and its still reflection, two sugar-glazed apricots poised to meet on the horizon. One checkmark on this tour of town. Goodbye frayed map, oh neat plotting of events. I round the corner onto the side street, and learn what the city thinks about my sentimental travels: our park redressed in chain-link, the grass gone under gravel. While I sit to think if this is chance or chastening, a terrier, broken free, sloshes coffee from the cup in my hand, draws a muddy streak across my knee. ...