The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

My fingers were raw from the salt air and the rough grain of the oak, and I was walking fast enough to keep the mud from sucking at my boots as I headed toward the harbor custom house. The ledger was pressed against my ribs, a cold brick of stolen paper that I had lifted from the magistrate’s office while he was busy arguing with the butcher about the price of mutton. I was twelve years old,...

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