The Golden Downtown

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The bread was already stale, the crust tough as leather, the crumb dry and crumbling into the dust that coated the stone floor. Margaret did not taste it. She held the loaf in her hands, the way one holds a dying bird, feeling for a heartbeat that had long since ceased, her fingers tracing the fissures where the yeast had failed to rise. The cellar was a mouth of shadow, damp and close, the air...

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