The Wistful Silence
The silver locket weighed four ounces in your father’s hand, a dead weight of tarnish and cold metal that he pressed into your palm with a grip that was too strong for a man whose lungs were failing, the leather of his glove creaking as he adjusted the clasp around your neck, his eyes fixed not on you but on the white linen of his shirt where a fresh, rust-colored stain had just bloomed from...
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