The Golden Myth
The rot had not come from the outside, but from within the marrow of the oak, a slow and silent consumption that my father insisted was merely the natural aging of a thing that had stood too long in the damp air of the valley, though the truth, which I felt vibrating in the floorboards beneath my bare feet like a low hum from a distant engine, was that the tree was dying because it remembered...
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