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Last Call at Borders

Final days at Store #1

by Eve Silberman

posted 9/8/2011

Hours after Borders Inc. made it official--the business is dead, the liquidators are coming--things seemed almost normal at the downtown Borders, "Store Number One." A light crowd milled about the new fiction table display at the front, while a U-M student scanned a shelf of DVDs on sale. Here and there, bits of overheard conversation floating among

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