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Tara looked up. It was the clown. He was tall—impossibly so—and his oversized shoes looked like two bright red tugboats docked on the pavement. His name tag, pinned crookedly to a polka-dot vest, simply read "Why 175?" Tara asked, skipping the pleasantries.

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