The Distant Promise

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The transfer request form lay on the kitchen table, the ink still wet, a stark white rectangle against the dark, peeling linoleum. You had filled it out three times, each time erasing the last line until the paper felt thin and fragile in your hands, a physical manifestation of the lie you were trying to tell the state: that you were leaving because of career advancement, not because the air in...

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