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Curtis Sittenfeld is a relative newcomer to Saint Louis, so it took a native to teach her about some local lore, specifically the time back in 1990 when a climatologist named Iben Browning predicted a big shakeup along the New Madrid fault line sometime in early December. In 1812, New Madrid was the site of the most massive earthquake ever to hit North America.…
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