The Wistful Incense

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The rain did not fall; it hung in the air, a grey, suspended mist that smelled of wet copper and old pennies. You stood on the corner of Fourth and Main, the collar of your heavy wool coat turned up against the damp chill, holding the tin can. It was dented, rusted at the seams, and it smelled of sage. To the people rushing past, hunched under black umbrellas like mushrooms sprouting from the...

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