A couple is buying their first house, an older brick ranch two counties over from where they rent now. Their offer was accepted on Friday. Their agent says they have a short window to schedule an inspection. On Saturday morning, one of them types "home inspect
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A woman decides, on a Sunday night, that she's going to try the donation-based community class she heard about from a friend. She searches the studio's name on her phone. The listing says the studio opens at 7 a.m. on Saturdays. The website says 8. The booking
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On a Tuesday afternoon, the office manager of a family orthodontic practice sits down with a cup of coffee and something she's never done before: she reads every review the practice has received this year, start to finish, in one sitting.
She expected to lear
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Every Thursday morning, a farmer backs a pickup truck to the loading door of a family-owned grocery store and unloads crates of apples, squash, and whatever else is ready that week. Every Thursday, the produce manager walks out to meet her. They talk about the
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On a Tuesday night, a woman in the next town over sits on her couch and types a search into her phone: "author reading near me this weekend." She has heard, from a friend, that a novelist she likes is visiting a bookstore somewhere close. She doesn't know whic
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