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The Mandelbrot Set

At Friedly’s Exchange, residue clung to fingertips and grabbed at the soles of shoes. Tattered books, chipped pottery, a dead man’s suit—all less tinged with nostalgia than ruined by desertion. Ginger’s parents went thrifting most Saturdays, bent on a course of rescue and appeasement. Malcolm looked for old, odd compasses for his collection; Edie for …

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By Heidi Naylor   IN HIGH SCHOOL, I worked as a lottery ticket agent at a strip mall newsstand called Tri-State Book and Game. I was sixteen, seventeen, selling lottery tickets I was too young to buy or redeem, and I suppose such a situation is not so uncommon. But it was a job that …

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