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When I called her, I discovered that Terrie had heard of my name. Sasha had told her a lot about me. She said that my call was a huge relief to her, because she didn't know what to do even though she had been scrupulously attentive in her role as janitor for many years. I questioned Terrie for a long time, but when I asked her how many photographs or boxes of them were in the house, she told me that the whole lot was a huge quantity. I insisted that she tell me the number at least approximately. She explained that a large room was absolutely full of them, but that it was locked, that she could not enter and that only Sasha had access to it...