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In the online version of a short story by David Hoon Kim in the June 11 New Yorker, a little sidebar lists "keywords" for the story:

Keywords: Paris, France; Love Affairs; Asians; College Students; Danish; Japanese; Suicides.

One hardly needs to read the story at all. It reminds me of the famous line in Nabokov's "Lolita": "My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three."

technorati: New Yorker, short stories, David Hoon Kim