“Tell me the truth, girl: how does the man next door ship out trailer-loads of material from a building ten times too small to hold the stuff?”

"He cuts prices."
"In Our Block" (1965); later in Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970)

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American writer 1914–2002

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