The Wistful Dinner

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The gate was iron, cold against my palms, and it did not open. I stood before the checkpoint, the resignation letter folded tight in my breast pocket, feeling the paper cut into my skin like a splinter of bone. My shadow, that long, dark appendage that had followed me since the first day I took the post, was not with me. It lay ahead, a black smudge on the gravel, stretching toward the ridge....

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