Women Who Stay, 25
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From the hallway, Janie's condo was unremarkable. There was a worn welcome mat before its beige door, a banal triplet to the neighboring apartments. But once we crossed the threshold, the illusion of a tidy, ordinary life shattered. The two-bedroom apartment was packed to the gills with, to recall Mark's description of the hoard at Hollow Hill Farm, crap.