The Distant Affair

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The house was not built to be heard, but to be witnessed. It stood on the ridge above the valley, a sprawling estate of slate and oak that had absorbed the rain of three centuries. We had gathered for the centennial, a gathering that felt less like a celebration and more like a congregation of ghosts. There were perhaps forty of us, the descendants of the Ashworth line, spread across the grand...

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