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It wasn’t because Eva L. Smith didn’t have enough to do (she is deputy clerk for all three courts) that she came outside to wash the windows of Rappahannock County Clerk’s office Tuesday. ‘‘They needed it, she said “and the weather was conducive to finding an excuse to be outside.” The ancient glass panes show all of their imperfections attesting to their age.
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