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It’s crazy how a single piece of bad news can transform an entire street. It can turn the same clouds from flannel to steel, make the streetlights into daggers. Shuttered storefronts, a premonition. A hope is reversed and a light goes out of the world. Across an ocean, a tide changes and daylight flickers over the waves. Bu…
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