The Long Life of a Rooftop Tin Man (and Other Sheet Metal Figures)

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They’ve been up there, motionless, for 80 years. When she was a child in the 1950s, Lona loved them. In the late 1970s, she took her daughter to see them. The Tin Man and the rooftop children have survived hurricanes and baking heat and seen tragedy after tragedy. Their days may be numbered.