Take a brisk walk up and down the stairs.

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But every morning for the rest of her natural life, she'll wake up, walk down the stairs and find herself staring at two hulking leviathans.

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It struck me that before I could reach the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, I had to pass through the front hall, cross the dusky living room with its sagging couch, walk the length of the kitchen, and climb two sets of creaking stairs, the long one up to the landing and the short one up to the hall.

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