Is Laughter Contagious?

story: Is Laughter Contagious?  author: Joyce Carol Oates year: 1992 where: kitchen table, fingers stained red from Spanish cherries note: meeting JCO is three weeks! a line: “Nor have we streets, in the old sense of that word– we have “lanes,” we have “drives,” we have “passes,” “circles,” “courts,” even “ways,” but we do not have…