But as I sat there at my desk, they called me back.

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Back in my room, I wrapped all my blankets around me to keep warm thinking wistfully of the dense, heavy comforters found in Danish country hotels and sat down at my desk to start work on the twenty pages Gadbois had given me to translate.

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And so I completed my poster, and I hung it on the wall of my home office just above my desk, so I could see it whenever I sat at my computer.

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