The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

March 14, 1998 The deed lay on the kitchen table, the paper yellowed and soft at the edges, a weight I had carried for thirty years. I held the lighter in my right hand, the flame trembling slightly, not from the draft coming under the door, but from the sheer effort of keeping my hand steady. I was forty-two, a retired federal marshal, and I wanted to burn the deed to my ancestral home before...

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