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Lillian Fishman

Lillian Fishman is the author of the novel “ Acts of Service .”

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“Travesty”
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Fiction by Lillian Fishman, the author of “Acts of Service”: No thought was so devastating to Prima as the thought that she was ascribing wisdom and seriousness to something that would turn out to be stupid.