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Stan dropped Lenore off at her house and a few uneventful hours later she went to work for another closing. She parked her car and waited while Becky drove up and parked beside her. The pair walked toward the store together, and Lenore had a hunch Becky had something she wanted to say. Maybe it was the twinkle in her eyes or the way her lips were set in a perpetual smile. They strode through the store and into the back room and to the small office. The back room was where they kept the stock stacked on pallets waiting to be taken out and shelved. The office was stuck in one of the far corners of the back room. It was a square space partitioned from the rest of the tall, large stock room by four wooden walls, a door, and a long window that looked out on the piles of stock. There
