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Every Saturday, before the streetlamps blinked off, Nadia unlocked the front door of her grandmother's repair shop and swept the sawdust that had drifted beneath the workbench overnight. The shop smelled of solder and old paper. Along the back wall stood a row of radios in various states of surrender: some gutted, their tubes lined up like teeth on a cloth; others merely dusty, waiting for a customer who might never return. Her grandmother, Baba Vera, insisted that every machine could be coaxed back to life if you listened to it long enough. Nadia was less certain. She preferred the ledger, where numbers behaved. Still, she came each week, because the shop was the one place her grandmother spoke without hurry, naming each part as she reached for it, telling Nadia which customer had wept when a silent radio finally sang. By noon the light through the window turned the dust to gold, and Nadia, despite herself, would forget the ledger entirely. What does Nadia do first when she arrives at the shop on Saturdays?

1. She records the day's sales figures in her grandmother's shop ledger.
2. She unlocks the door and sweeps the sawdust beneath the workbench.
3. She lines up the loose, salvaged radio tubes on a soft cloth.
4. She waits for the noon light to turn the drifting dust to gold.

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