The Faded Portrait

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The ink under your fingernails is black. It has been there for three days. You scrub with pumice stone until the skin bleeds, but the mark remains. It is not dirt. It is memory. You sit in the corner of the workshop, a place that smells of turpentine and old wood. The air is thick. It tastes of dust and decay. Outside, the rain hammers against the glass. Inside, silence rules. Your father built...

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