The Pale Banner
The banner had been pale even before the war—pale as the knuckles of the old men who unfurled it each spring on the green at Oakhaven, pale as the water-colour skies in the little gallery where Eleanor first saw him. That was the thing about memory: it did not preserve things as they were, but as they felt. The banner was not pale; it was the deep, bruised crimson of the Lancashire roses their...
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