The Wistful Crossroads
The letter from the Department of Border Affairs lay on the kitchen table, its ink still wet and smelling faintly of iron, a bureaucratic promise of twenty years’ service finally cashed out in a pension that would keep the lights on in the small cottage I shared with no one. I signed it with a hand that trembled not from age, but from the specific, hollow exhaustion of a man who has spent four...
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