The Wistful Dinner

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The brass seal in my pocket was heavy, a dead weight against my hip that had worn a groove into the leather of my waistcoat over two decades of service at the London Docks. It was November 1912, and the air in the customs office smelled of damp wool, stale tobacco, and the metallic tang of fear that permeates any bureaucracy when the axe is about to fall. I was forty-two years old, a senior...

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