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The Yale Review | "Breathing Exercise" by Raven Leilani

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Fiction by Raven Leilani

The Yale Review | "Breathing Exercise" by Raven Leilani Fiction Breathing Exercise Raven Leilani Jayne Wilton, Drawing Breath (Inspire) , 2010, detail. When she began to have trouble breathing, Myriam tried to wait it out. She monitored the daily pollen count, bought a Neti pot, and tried not to think about the gallerists who no longer returned her calls. After an opening of her new work which had only three attendees—a pair of Danish tourists and a woman who wanted to know if the toilets were free—she went to a party in Poughkeepsie and received a crushing pep talk from a sculptor whose assis

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