The Faded Portrait

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The scaffolding groaned under the weight of the morning, a low, wooden complaint that I knew better than the sound of my own breathing. I was fifty-two years old, and the cathedral stood before me like a dying giant, its stones pitted by centuries of rain and neglect. My hands trembled as I adjusted the harness, the leather biting into my shoulders with a familiar, painful intimacy. I wanted to...

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