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Epigraph on page 6: “Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The
New Physicality of Long Distance Love” by June Jordan, from We’re
On: A June Jordan Reader, edited by Christoph Keller and Jan Heller
Levi, Alice James Books 2017 © 2017, 2021 June M. Jordan Literary
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