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Four buildings populate the west side of the town’s lone dirt road. Marked in white paint on rotting plywood, feet above fruit pallets serving as doors, from north to south: McPHERSON’s PUB, McPHERSON’s HARDWARE, McPHERSON’s CLOTHING and McPHERSON’s ACCOUNTING, all constructed with bricks of varying color—dar...