The Distant Summer

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The ink on the Aurora Ledger was still wet when I touched it, a slick, viscous film that smelled of iron and ozone. I counted the pages, my fingers tracing the grooves of the binding, forty-three sheets of vellum that should have been dead and dry for thirty years. The Bureau of Records did not deal in the living; it dealt in the filed, the stamped, the finished. Yet here, in the basement...

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