The Faded Photograph

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The shrapnel did not kill him, but it stole the left side of his tongue. It was a jagged, rusted fragment that had lodged itself deep in the musculature, turning every attempt at speech into a wet, slurred hiss. Arthur Penhaligon had been a cartographer before the war, a man who mapped the precise coordinates of rivers and ridges, who understood that a line on paper was a promise of stability....

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