That year, when we approached one of the bigger houses a house known to have the best candy but with 10 tall cement steps leading to the front door my fear of heights stopped me cold.

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Then she found Victoria Beckman, a Russian immigrant laying out family photographs and documents in the cold air along the two stone railings leading from her front door to the sidewalk.

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He pulled hard on the restaurant door, forcing it open, and stumbled with his tattered flowers into the dark realm between the door and the velvet drapes that had been hung to keep the cold from sweeping in over diners at the front of the room.

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