The Distant Promise
The hand that held mine in the dark was not my own, yet I felt the familiar topography of its knuckles, the slight bow of the thumb, the dry, papery texture of skin that had once been soft as rose petals but had now hardened into something resembling parchment or old wood, a map of a life lived in isolation and in fear. I knew this hand because I had washed it, had scrubbed the dirt from...
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