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copier. “She always said the smell of old paper was better than any perfume.”

“You must miss her,” I said.

“The house is very quiet since she moved to Illinois,” she said, pushing her glasses up again. “Sometimes I find myself talking to the books just to hear a voice.”

A blue sedan passed slowly by the high, street-level window of the basement, its tires continue reading …