The Faded Photograph

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The leather of the belt was cracked along the buckle, a dry map of fissures that I ran my thumb over until the skin felt raw. It was a thing of habit, really, the way one checks a watch or adjusts a collar, but in the grey light of the Oakhaven Police Station, it felt like a ritual of penance. I was thirty years old, and I had served this city for fourteen of them, yet I stood in the corridor...

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