The Wistful Cipher
You are leaving before the rain begins. The station platform is wet with a mist that smells of ozone and old iron. You hold your suitcase in one hand and a small, leather-bound journal in the other. The leather is cracked, the pages swollen with dampness. You do not look at your father. He is standing by the ticket booth, his back to you, looking out at the tracks. He is an old man now, his...
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