The Wistful Dinner

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The soot in Oakhaven did not fall like snow; it settled like a verdict. It was the winter of 1893, and the air tasted of iron and ash, coating the back of my throat with a grit that no amount of water could wash away. I stood in the cramped office of Mr. Thorne, the foreman of the silk mill, my hands trembling not from the cold, but from the fury of a debt I could not pay. My mother had died...

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