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In the city, no one has died of
typhoid or cholera in five years.
Starvation is now almost unknown in the upland farms. United Teledyne has been scouting the hills above the city, considering sites for a broadcast tower. Marta has not thought of Anthony in months, not since that boy in the data-entry pool reminded her so much of him, his eyes innocent and wild, his body ardent. But now she reads the New York Times Book Review, and puts a drop of perfume under each breast after she showers in the morning. When she was sixteen, she sold fish chowder on the street.
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