If you look, you will find patterns in anything. My patrons remind me of this regularly, doggedly researching worn pretzels of thought. One places a tattered index card on the desk in front of me and begs me to find the words, the right order, the combination that will unlock the door with no handle. [...]
Pennies. That was it. He smells like pennies. After working with this regular patron for weeks, I finally figured it out today, with that strange exultation of now knowing the recently-unfamiliar. Though I do not know exactly how pennies smell like pennies. People smell like pennies and erasers and campfires, ask for the same photo [...]
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