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A delivery manifest lists a walk-in freezer at an address with no restaurant, and it has been serviced every month for six years.

Camille Boudreaux is forty-seven, second-generation owner of a New Orleans wholesale food distributorship, and nine days from selling it. Then she drives out to line nineteen and finds a concrete slab, a steel box humming by itself in the weeds, and a path worn to bare dirt by something rolled through that gate for decades.

The stop takes forty minutes to deliver two cases. It has taken forty minutes for six drivers across forty-seven years. Nothing has ever come back out.