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Jackie Thomas-Kennedy holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University School of the Arts and was named a 2014–2016 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. The winner of numerous awards for her work, including First Place in Narrative’s Fall 2008 Story Contest for her story “You Cannot Lie about a Mountain,” she writes for many national periodicals, and several of her pieces are available in our Archive. Thomas-Kennedy lives in Massachusetts.

Baptism

An iStory

by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy

I asked how long the immersion would last, though I’d seen it dozens of times.

“No more than three seconds,” my father said. “You’ll be fine.”

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