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Go shoppingTranslated by Linda White
She’s alone in the world.
She loves getting letters, but when she looks in the mailbox it’s always empty.
She decided to write to herself. She put the letter in an envelope and wrote her address on it twice, once as the recipient and once as the sender.
She went out for a walk down the empty streets and dropped the letter in a random city mailbox. She has been waiting ever since, for two or three days. Every morning she looks in her mailbox. The letter hasn’t arrived.
She is truly alone in the world.
“Alone” was originally published in An Anthology of Basque Short Stories, edited by Mari Jose Olaziregi (Center for Basque Studies-University of Nevada, Reno, 2004).
