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Where IS everything?

Posted by linkmeister on 17 January 2013, 2:50 pm

There’s nothing quite like walking into the neighborhood used book emporium after a few months of not doing so and discovering the management has flipped the store shelves back-to-front. The CDs all used to be on the right toward the back; now they’re directly in front. The mystery books were on the left toward the …

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