The Distant Garden

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The needle was cold in my hand, a sliver of steel that felt like a bone. I held it up to the grey light filtering through the shop window, watching the dust motes swirl in the shafts. Outside, the pigeons cooed a wet, rhythmic sound, a low drone that vibrated in the floorboards. It was October, 1944. I was forty-two years old, a tailor in Lyon, and I had one goal: to finish Elise’s wedding...

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