The Wistful Witness

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The cold bit into the knuckles of my hands as I hauled the last crate of salted cod from the dock, the ropes cutting white furrows into skin that had not yet learned to tolerate the winter. I was thirty-two years old, a docker’s clerk with a head full of tallies and a heart full of debt, and I had walked twenty miles to the capital city in the greenish light before the hailstorm to save my...

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