Crooked Path, by the way, is a fictional town in New York, located both ten minutes north of Manhattan and ten minutes south of the Canadian border, which (if you don’t have a map handy) is conveniently impossible. She claims the town was founded by a sect of anti-cartography zealots who were fervently against mapmaking of any kind. Crooked Path somehow shares a border with Kansas and maintains its own navy. It’s home to the Crooked Path Home for Aged and Unpleasant Ex-Husbands; the Gertrude Stein Opera Is Opera Is Opera House; the Dorothy Parker Academy for Girls, where Duchess gives an
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