In article . com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:
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"However, some like Tom Stillwagon of Iowa City couldn't wait to see the
new facility close up."
When I first read this, I read the word c-l-o-s-e as in "to shut down".
Then I read the next sentence and saw the meaning was intended to be
"near".