Shorts
Lovers Under an Apple Tree
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Why did the priest and the choir singer die, and what was the nature of their love?
Audrey Farley
<span style="font-weight: 400">Audrey Farley earned a PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she studied twentieth-century American literature and culture. She is the author of a forthcoming book on heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, whose 1936 sterilization case marked a turning point in the eugenics movement. Her writing has appeared in </span><span style="font-weight: 400">the</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400"> Atlantic</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">,</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">New Republic</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">,</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Washington Post</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">, and many other outlets.</span>