The Faded Portrait

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The brass key was cold, heavier than it had any right to be, sitting in the palm of my left hand like a dead bird. It was the key to the Special Collections vault, the one I had carried for nineteen years, and I held it there, staring at the tarnish that mapped the topography of my own neglect, while the phantom ache in my fingers pulsed in a rhythm that matched the rain against the window. I...

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