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Oh, book, you sounded so promising.....Triangle Shirtwaist fire, museum of oddities, the Dreamland fire, but despite some lovely passages ("Names don't matter. Our God knows how to call us to him when he wants us" "The steel skeletons of the rides still being constructed were silver in the dark. I imagined they shivered in anticipation of all they would become," and "[Mitts] was to be his master's companion, and in doing so he became himself, the essence of a dog.") I was.....well, bored.
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Ok. But can't get into books about freak shows anymore.
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