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I was on the front porch, drowning a mouse in a bucket, when this van pulled up, which was strange. On an average day, a total of fifteen cars might pass the house, but no one ever stops. And this was late, three o'clock in the morning. The couple across the street are asleep by nine, and, from what I can tell, the people next door turn in an hour or so later. There are no street lamps in our village in Normandy, so when it's dark it's really dark. And when it's quiet you can hear everything.
''Did I tell you about the burglar who got stuck in the chimney?" That was the big story last summer. One time, it happened in the village at the bottom of the hill, the ...