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An Inauguration Novella, Part 1 of 5

Slate Books

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Arts

3.8546 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2009

⏱️ 13 minutes

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"All Along, This Was What Was Supposed to Happen," an original novella about the inauguration written and read by Curtis Sittenfeld. Part 1 of 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All along, this was what was supposed to happen.

0:33.6

A novella about the inauguration.

0:36.1

Written and read by Curtis Sittenfeld.

0:38.7

Part 1 of 5.

0:41.3

Standing in the arrivals area of the Philadelphia airport, waiting for her 77-year-old Aunt Lettie to come into view,

0:48.7

Patrice thinks that it's not that she wasn't thrilled about the outcome of the election.

0:53.0

Of course she was. How could she not be? Nor is it that she wasn't planning about the outcome of the election. Of course she was. How could she not be?

0:55.6

Nor is it that she wasn't planning to celebrate the inauguration. It's just that she wasn't planning to

1:00.5

attend it. She'd seen the news reports. Up to 2 million people converging on the capital.

1:07.3

10,000 charter buses and 11,000 U.S. troops, and this to Patrice was the biggest deterrent,

1:14.4

more than 12,000 porta-potties.

1:17.2

Both blessed and cursed with an acute sense of smell, Patrice has more than once, when alone

1:23.1

and walking by a construction site, actually crossed a street to avoid passing within a few feet

1:29.1

of a porta potty's stench. And besides that, what would any normal person without special access

1:35.2

be able to see at the inauguration? The question wasn't whether you'd have a view of the swearing-in,

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