The Wistful Mountain

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The brass key was warm in my palm, a small, heavy thing that had been rubbed smooth by decades of my father’s calloused hands. It sat against my skin like a live coal, and I held it up to the grey light of the morning, turning it over to see the worn edge where the metal had thinned. I was twelve years old, and I knew exactly what I wanted: I wanted to find the missing boundary stone of the...

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