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13 STRIP MALL Car windshield broken, taxes undone, and hungry? Here are your needs resolved. Laundromat, jewelry store, copy shop, bar: uniform siding and signage betraying the likeness of demand, balanced on the quarter point of interest that stabilizes securities and prevents a real estate bubble. The ice cream parlor shunting customers into the dentist’s chair, the sex shop providing penitents to the church, brought, by an invisible hand, together on these yards of asphalt. No developer’s foresight in such felicitous connections, such perfect commerce of carpet sales and vacuum repair, rows of glassed shops clinging to minor highways and busy side streets, keeping things stop-and-go long into the evening. ...

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