The Distant Garden

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The letter lay on the desk, its edges yellowing from the damp. It was a valuation from the county assessor, dated three days prior, stating the worth of the Ashworth estate at a figure that made Elias’s hands tremble. He was fifty-four, retired from the county archives after twenty years of filing birth certificates and divorce decrees, and the number suggested he would need to sell the house,...

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