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“You always feel that Jenny values you,” said Rose Styron, the poet, journalist and human rights activist, and another year-rounder.

And she knew she had been fully accepted as a year-rounder when the women at the local hardware store began to soften.

“Elizabeth?” said another D Street year-rounder, Carol Ryan, bemused, as though Elizabeth was any less mysterious a target for terrorism than Seaside Park.

“So ... you’re a year-rounder?”