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By Nell FreudenbergerMartha was standing at the kitchen door, looking into the backyard. The door is glass, with panes separated by wooden muntins. At four, she’s just tall enough to see past the deck, down the iron stairs to the paved yard we share with Gwen, the other tenant. Ben paved it himself, last year, to make the garden more manageable.
