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Their romance is more awkward than whirlwind as he fears she will dislike him because of his severe harelip and recurring nightmares.

There was the Brad, a master rigger of industrial cranes, whose gruff diatribes against bankers, bike lanes, hipsters, and “harelips” we surreptitiously recorded, for laughs.

It is Coetzee’s Michael K, with a harelip that so limits his speech that communication with him is virtually impossible.

Whenever somebody with a harelip or T.B. came into the place he would set him up to beer.

“Lunch!” the little man with the almost harelip calls down the hall.