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A forty two story tower opens on schedule in downtown Atlanta on a certificate of occupancy signed by a man who retired fourteen months before it was issued.

Marise Alleyne built that tower. She is the first woman to run one for her firm, she brought it in six days early, and on the Monday before the tenants move in she reads the document hanging in her own lobby and recognizes the signature from a retirement card she signed herself.

On floor thirty one, a safety consultant is counting stair doors and getting the same wrong number on every floor. The building is sound. The paperwork is not, and it is not even about this building.