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Arlington is easy to underestimate if you only know it as the stretch of Northern Virginia across the Potomac, close to downtown Washington, full of commuters, federal buildings, and neighborhoods that seem to rise and fall in tidy succession. Spend real time there, though, and the place reveals a far more layered identity. It is a landscape of memory as much as of motion, where Civil War earthworks sit within minutes of cafés, where a national cemetery overlooks the capita