The Distant Garden
The ink on the final page of my tenure review was still wet when I signed it. Thirty years. That is what the number said. Thirty years of dust, of cold hands, of sorting the dead into boxes that smelled of mold and old paper. I wanted the seal. Just the seal. A stamp of approval that would turn my thirty years into a pension, a quiet house, a life that ended without the weight of the estate...
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