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In 1974 the want ads were the labour market, the rental market and the used car market, in agate type, in columns too tight to track by eye.…
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It Arrived Every Autumn and Cost Almost Nothing
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Sometime in the fall a thin paper book appeared - bought for a few cents at the feed…
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It Arrived in December and Nobody Bought It
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Sometime in the last weeks of the year, calendars began turning up. The bank handed one across the…
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The Bedroom Had a Piece of Furniture for Washing In
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Against the wall of the bedroom, or in a corner, stood a washstand: a waist-high wooden…
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It Looked Like a Piano and Had a Machine Inside It
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From the front it was an upright piano, a little deeper than usual, with a…
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It Was a Truck With a Store Built Into It
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It came down the road on a set day, slowed at the gate, and stopped -…