The Golden Downtown

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The letter from the Board of Trustees lay on my desk, its seal broken, the ink still wet and smelling of iron and dust. It offered me permanent tenure, contingent upon the completion of the "Golden Downtown" ledger, a task I had accepted with the quiet arrogance of a woman who believed her intellect was a fortress against the world’s decay. I was forty-two, a senior archivist at St. Jude’s...

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