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    Margaret is seventy-five years old. She has lived in the same house for fifty years. The attic is full of boxes: photographs, letters, documents. She has been collecting them for decades. She is an archivist. She preserves the stories of others. She has never told her own story. Her daughter, Lucy, comes to visit. Lucy is helping her clean out the attic. She asks Margaret about the boxes. Margaret tells her that they are stories. Lucy asks if she can look at them. Margaret says yes. Lucy opens the first box. She finds photographs of people she does not know. She asks Margaret who they are. Margaret starts to tell their stories. She is surprised at how much she remembers.

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