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September 9, 2013 Issue

Walking Normally: the Facts

By Ian Frazier

September 2, 2013

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Illustration by Nicholas Blechman
Illustration by Nicholas Blechman

Claim: When we are at the mall you say that you have walked so much
that you need to be carried, because your legs are "all stretched
out."

Published in the print edition of the September 9, 2013, issue.
Ian Frazier is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His most recent book
is "Cranial Fracking," a collection of humor pieces.
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