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Thirty Nine - Miss Allen
The corridors of City Hall seemed empty and lifeless as the three of us walked through them, the photographs of the former mayors seeming haunting now that my father was among the deceased.
The receptionist in the lobby had given me a sympathy soaked look as I walked by and I tried to ignore the way her eyes softened and her lips pressed together, her head shaking slightly.
When I opened the doors to my father's former office I had to stop and catch my breath for a moment.
It was eerie and foreign feeling looking around the uninhabited office because everything was untouched.The leather chair and mahogany desk, the pictures of our family framed on the bookshelves, the curtains on the large window tied neatly as they always were.
It felt as if my father could walk in any minute and the prospe
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