The Faded Portrait

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Vane, Arthur Vane, get in here, you lazy bastard, and bring the ledger if you want to keep your job. The voice of Mr. Thorne, the Chief Actuary, sliced through the humid air of the Meridian Life Insurance Company’s office like a wire cut through wet wool, and I dropped the stylus I was using to smooth the crease in my father’s policy document, the one that smelled faintly of camphor and the...

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