The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The sleet had turned the cobblestones of Leeds into a slick, treacherous mirror, reflecting the grey, soot-stained facades of the warehouses that lined the river bank, and I walked with the heavy, deliberate gait of a man whose knees had begun to ache with the damp chill of the November air. I was forty years old, a debt collector for the firm of Halloway and Sons, a title that had once sounded...

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