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THE QUIET PART · REV 7
My grandfather kept a shop that sold nothing anyone needed. Rope, brass hinges, tins of oil the color of weak tea. He opened it at six and swept the step whether or not the step was dirty, which is to say that the sweeping was the point and the dirt was incidental.
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