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From Joe's writing

Shawn and Jenny bicycled to Maya Wang’s house on Fourth Street, just off Highway-136, arriving a few minutes before five. Maya’s family lived about as far from the town square as was humanly possible in Carthage, and they were cutting it close.

— Sundown Rising