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Old McSkunkville Bell Telephone · Tokyo, Japan
The road to Tokyo is long, but the ledger travels light. These days, letters postmarked Tokyo sit in the town's welcome drawer, and The town ledger lists Tokyo among friends.
Marbelle Toll ran the switchboard through two floods and one tornado without dropping a call. Her operators still say 'number, please' like it's a promise, because it is.
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