The Elixir of Roses
The roses began to bloom in October, which was the first wrong thing. Roses do not bloom in October in County Cork. They bloom in June, when the light is long and the air is warm and the soil remembers the sun. But these roses—these roses bloomed in October, in the walled garden of Ballymore House, an abandoned Georgian estate perched on a cliff above the Atlantic, and they were the color of...
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