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Chapter Thirteen: The Northern Quarter

Author: Dr shukran
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"There is a particular loneliness that belongs to people who know too much.

They cannot unknow it. They cannot share it safely.

They can only carry it and wait for the moment someone knocks on the door

who finally understands what they have been holding."

* * *

I spend the morning building the approach.

Not the physical approach, the address in the northern quarter, the route from the Halverson Building that avoids the Crescent Grand's surveillance perimeter and the two blocks of eastern commer
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