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The Friday that I got Hortus's tickets, Selene enters the café, and takes off her Ray-Ban sunglasses. She gets to the front of the line, and says in crummy French: Café, s'il te plaît.

She had stylish eyeglasses. The library was empty when she arrived, and she approached me in the music aisle. "Nice to see you," says Catherine. "Good day," I said, surprised at how different she was.

"Nice to meet you," I said to the curator who ordered two coffees, and told me about her work.