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The gymnasium at Cedar Hollow High smelled like floor wax and cheap coffee from the folding table by the door.

# The Last Ranch Off Route 9 The gravel lot behind the Cottonwood Diner in Bozeman, Montana, still smelled

Marisol Ibarra had six pounds of zucchini sitting on her kitchen counter in Fresno, California, and no

Forty-one pounds. That's what the scale said the morning of Derek's Level 2 trainer certification

I work the door at Baptist Health downtown Little Rock, six to two, and I've held a lot of umbrellas

I've cut hair on Cedar Avenue for nineteen years, and I've seen a lot through that front window.

Marisa Cantwell had been waiting for eleven months to hear her husband ask how her day went.

The dumpster behind the Fairview Gardens complex in Youngstown, Ohio, wasn't supposed to have anything

Marcus Reyes still keeps the folder in a drawer in his study in Tucson, Arizona—a manila envelope gone

The Ledger She Kept Maureen Castellano turned sixty-three on a Tuesday in March, and the only card on










