The Wistful Mirror

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The cup was cold, the ceramic rim slick with condensation that felt like a film of oil against my thumb. I held it in the dark of the basement archives, the silence pressing against my eardrums with a physical weight that made my teeth ache. It was 1893, and I was sixteen, a junior clerk at the Millhaven Sanatorium, desperate to prove my worth to a father who saw my ambition as a dangerous...

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