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Thursday. The kitchen, seven in the evening.
The frame went on the shelf by the tall window, where the lamp could find it.
She had chosen the place at four, standing in the kitchen with the wrapped thing in her hands, and the choosing had taken her longer than the wedding had. Corbin had said where the light was good. The machine had said nothing about where. It had only said when. She set it between the fruit bowl and the glasses, angled to the room, two people on a staircase under new glass. Then she stepped back the way you step back from a chair set for a guest who may not come.
He came in at seven, saw it on his second step, and stopped.
"There we are," Daniel said.
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