The Wistful Campus

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The soup was thick. It sat in the ceramic bowl, a murky amber sludge. Margaret stared at it. The steam rose in a single, lazy curl. It smelled of thyme. It smelled of old bones. It smelled of her mother’s kitchen in 1974. She was seventy-two. Her hands shook. Not much. Just a tremor in the right index finger. She wrapped that finger around the spoon. The metal was cold. The soup was hot. Across...

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