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a fine damn cause

Lucy set the tip cup outside the window discreetly behind the ‘copay due at time of service’ sign, and required each timid patient who muttered conspiratorily, ‘this may be a stupid question’ to drop a quarter in the cup before she would answer; later she would put every quarter into the box at her local general store marked ‘for literacy’ and laugh heartily at her own secret irony.

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