The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The tape measure unspooled across the kitchen counter, its yellow steel biting into the wood grain as I tried to gauge the width of the suitcase. It was a small, battered thing, brown leather cracked like dry earth, and it smelled of the cedar chips I had packed the night before, a scent that now felt like a lie. My hand trembled, not from age, though I was fifty-two and the joints in my...

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