Eleven Years of Eating Lunch by a Window in Columbus, Ohio, Ended With a Box I Never Expected
“I count thirty-one.”
“Then it’s thirty-one,” Derek said, and the smile he gave her was mostly teeth.
She tilted the tablet in against her cardigan, but I had already caught the column heading at the top.
402 MAINT, with numbers running down the side.
I pulled out the top folder.
Claim 44-1098, water damage at a restaurant over on High Street, closed and signed off by a supervisor named R.
Ott.
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