The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The letter was white. Not the white of snow, which is soft and yielding. Not the white of milk, which is warm. It was the white of bone. The white of a room where someone has just died and the sheets are pulled back. My father stood by the window. His hands were shaking. He held the envelope like a grenade. "Read it," he said. I did not move. I stood in the center of the kitchen. The linoleum...

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