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My mother-in-law used to let herself into my house whenever she wanted. I'm the one who finally

I clean the Sunnyside Diner on Route 9 every night after close, and I've learned more about people

Renata Kowalski had exactly one photograph of her son's wedding displayed in her apartment, and

I've done funerals for eleven years at the Church of Saint Anne on Elm Street, and I'

I didn't tell my husband when I started doing this. It just happened, the way small habits do —

I've been a notary public out of a strip mall office in Nashua, New Hampshire for nineteen years

My name is Denise. When this all started, I was thirty-six, and I'd spent nine years working out

I bought that garage with my own two hands in 1998 — bay by bay, tool by tool — and for eleven years

My name's Carl Boyer, I'm fifty-eight, and for six years I ran the parts counter at my son-in-law'

The Sunday shift at Damon's had barely started when I heard the bell over the door jingle wrong