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[Narrative] Praise for "A Christmas Miracle in the Marigny" - The New York Times - 30 Nov 2023#####An excerpt from a short story in The New York Times Magazine:<br>---<br>A Christmas Miracle in the Marigny <br>By Gabriel Brown<br>---<br>Dorothy Prince applied her lipstick in the rearview mirror. The radio played big band blues by request from her son. Its windows rattling, the little car wandered down St. Peter Street, past those Catholic schoolgirls who dawdled in white blouses near the corner of Burgundy. He groaned and swerved around a pothole, as if he worried the bumpy ride would topple the flask he had tied to his legs. He said, “Those nice girls would make a nice wife for you, Dorothy.” She winced at her reflection.<br>---<br>The narrator is Dorothy Prince, and her son is driving the car. A commenter rightly pointed out that the narrator wasn't driving. Let's try determining the gender of the narrator again.<br><br>Dorothy Prince applied her lipstick in the rearview mirror. The radio played big band blues by request from her son. Its windows rattling, the little car wandered down St. Peter Street, past those Catholic schoolgirls who dawdled in white blouses near the corner of Burgundy. He groaned and swerved around a pothole, as if he worried the bumpy ride would topple the flask he had tied to his legs. He said, “Those nice girls would make a nice wife for you, Dorothy.” She winced at her reflection.<br><br>&#x200B;<br><br>Dorothy Prince is the subject of the first sentence, and the son is the subject of the second and third. Dorothy Prince is male because his son told him to consider marrying the Catholic schoolgirls.