“It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.”

—  Miranda July

"The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004) http://fence.fenceportal.org/v7n1/text/july.html

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American performance artist, musician and writer 1974

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