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Submitted to Contest #168
Lucille Takes the Super Chief Immediately after boarding the train, Lucille climbed up the steps to the domed observatory and ordered a scotch and soda to calm her nerves. Even as The Super Chief lurched away from its pause in the rococo splendor of this Midwestern Union Station, and began its steady labor towards Los Angeles, part of Lucille still remained unconvinced that armed police would not burst through the doors and haul her off the train. It was not common in 1959...
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