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Now, however, I was arrived, and the dregs of adrenaline were consumed in anticlimax. “A true Gui!” the Old Man said. The adjacent hallway led to the offices, and someone was moving inside Able’s office. What on earth made them tick? Their lives—made of dates and grades—seemed small and confined, like the neighborhoods hemmed in by houses and trees.

But I was going over my grandmother’s life, exploring it the way Lewis and Clark explored the Missouri River and Rocky Mountains. The rhino didn’t call him an idiot. The headband slides around his neck and he pulls on the black stocking cap that still smells like mothballs. Never ever.