Once, she’d been staring at a bright future ahead of her. She’d attended the best schools, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, and landed an internship at none other than the awe-inspiring main branch of the New York Public Library, in its prestigious conservation department. She was on her way to someday matching, perhaps even surpassing, the illustrious reputation of her father, one of the NYPL’s most celebrated scholars. People had even started to whisper about “the new Dr. Young” in the halls as she passed. Once, for a brief moment, she had been just a little bit famous in that
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