The Distant Promise

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The iron bell of St. Jude’s Orphanage rang out at dusk, a sound so sharp it felt like a physical blow against the chest. Ten-year-old Thomas Bradshaw was not in the dormitory. He was in the cellar, in the dark, holding the only thing in the world that still felt warm. It was a small, clay vessel, no bigger than a grapefruit, glazed in a chipped, faded blue. It was his mother’s. She had died...

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