The Distant Threshold

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The letter in my breast pocket felt heavier than lead, a dense, cold weight that pulled at my sternum with every step. I was forty-two years old, a man who had once mapped the veins of rivers and the bones of mountains, now reduced to a ghost haunting the perimeter of his own exile. My mother, Margaret, had died three days ago in the sickroom at the end of the estate, her final breath a thin,...

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