Sasha looked at the windowpane, rinsed with rain, smearing lights in the falling dark.

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Fit at age 50, graying at the temples, with some Baldwin brother about him, Polenske sports local business attire: blue jeans and a pastel windowpane-checked shirt.

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They complain without understanding, and, like flies constantly banging against the same old windowpane, they buzz around, suffer, waste away, get depressed then wonder how they got caught up in this spiral that is taking them where they don't want to go.

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