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The dress seemed to approve. A seam at the waist popped—not as disaster but as punctuation—and for a heartbeat Mara imagined that the dress was speaking through the break. She laughed, a short, startled sound, and the violinist laughed too. Nearby, an elderly woman in a navy coat unfolded from a seat like a slow wave and said, “I wore a dress like that to a wedding in '63.” Her voice smoothed the air. “We danced until dawn. Never mind the rain.”

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