The Distant Threshold

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The fog rolls in from the harbor, thick and gray. It smells of salt and rust. You stand on the platform. Your hands shake. You hold the tin. It is cold. It is heavy. It feels like a stone in your palm. You are twelve years old. You are small. The city looms above you. Smoke chokes the sky. The factories never sleep. They eat the air. They spit out soot. You look at the tin. You do not open it....

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