The Wistful Witness

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The ledger had forty-two pages left. Elias Thorne counted them with a thumb stained black from the inkwell, the paper rough and dry under his touch, like the skin of a dried apple. He was forty-two years old, and this was his final week before the pension office would process his file. The task was simple: index the municipal records from 1948 to 1965, a span of seventeen years that had been...

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