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The Case Has Been in Court Since 1985 and the Land Is Being Used
The suit was filed in 1985 over four acres and a house near Karad, between two branches of a family that had until then been one. My grandfather was a defendant. My father inherited the position on…
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Twenty Minutes, Initialled by a Parent, Due Friday
The form went home every Monday for eleven years: five rows, a column for the title, a column for the minutes, a column for a parent's initials. Twenty minutes a night. Due Friday. It was a school …
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The Directory Says She Takes This Plan and She Retired in 2021
A woman I was helping last year needed a specialist and her plan's directory listed fourteen in-network practices accepting new patients within twenty miles. She got through eleven of them over two…
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The Previous Reader Wrote No She Wouldn't in the Margin
I buy my copies secondhand, and not for the reason people assume, which is money; the reason is that a used book arrives with an argument already in progress. The copy of Middlemarch on my desk cos…
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The School Was Built to Save the Language and It Has Forty Empty Desks
We had eleven children in class four this year. The room has fifty desks in it because it was built in 1974 for fifty children, by people who had carried the idea of a school out of Tibet along wit…
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Twenty-Two Percent on a Coffee Nobody Carried Anywhere
The screen swivelled toward me and offered 18, 22 and 25 percent. The transaction was one coffee, in a paper cup, which I had watched a machine make and a person hand across a counter eighteen inch…
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The Gauge Has Been Broken Since 2018 and the Model Still Uses It
Station 04185000 sits on a concrete pier under a county road bridge in northwest Ohio, and it has been reporting stage height every fifteen minutes since 1974. In April 2018 a piece of agricultural…
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The Meeting Minutes Stop in March and That Is the Document
The minute book for the Hollis County Board of Education runs from 1889 to 1961, in four volumes, in a climate-controlled room in the basement of a courthouse annex. The handwriting changes six tim…
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The Chapter Was Cut for Length and the Length Was Never the Reason
The 2017 revision removed four pages on the Bengal famine from the class eight textbook. The stated reason, in the committee minutes, is that the chapter ran long and the material was covered in cl…
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