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With laughter, knowledge and pain, Ann Packer provides five stories about girls and men--wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and fans--who learn that life's best shocks may be found in that which can be many familiar.In the concept tale, on the anniversary of the father's destruction a woman finds that her brother may have found a "reason behind living" in the love of a great woman.  In "Nerves," a person understands that he is loved by the wife he is separated from no longer but that it's their own existence he overlooks, not her.  The narrator of "My Mother's Yellow Dress" is just a homosexual man recalling their unpleasant and essential closeness and his departed mother.  In "Infants"--that was contained in the exclusive E.