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Romance

The room that offers another count

It is Saturday evening. Your right shoe squeaks on every backward step. You try the turn again in the hall corridor, hoping the orchestra's first chord will drown it. Squeak. A child carrying two raffle books watches your feet, then copies the noise with her mouth. You bow to her. She gives you a solemn little bow back and walks into the summer library fundraiser, leaving you alone with a shoe that has acquired an audience before you have.

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