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Room Above the Restaurant

The room I found sat above a Chinese restaurant in a worn-down part of town not far from the Savannah River, where the historic district gives way to boarded-up shops and check-cashing places and bars with neon signs that flicker day and night.

It barely fit a twin bed with a sagging mattress, a wobbly wooden table with uneven continue reading …