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Summary
She trailed off, suddenly overwhelmed by it all—the enormity of the building they were in, with its looming vaulted cathedral arches and half-price bottles of Dover's powder; the way Dr. Caligari made her feel like a trembling, excited fledgling afraid to fly; the marvel of the child growing in her belly, and how she felt consumed by the future for its sake; of the rumblings that the Italian blackshirts and their Roman takeover was just the beginning of similar nationalist movements springing up across the continent.
It all made her feel at once as though history started and stopped in the span of a moment no bigger than this; as though everything she would ever be, everything her son or daughter would ever be, everything the untold centuries of civilization would ever be, began and ended right here by the shoe polish rack.
Or, Charlotte, before.
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