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Chapter 89 — A Door I Could Open

Penulis: Ava Sterling
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"The second week of March went past and I did not send for it," I said, "and you are going to hear why before you are kind about it. I had no carriage money that week, and I was not going to book a cart I could not pay for and find out in front of a carrier's boy that I am the woman who cannot pay."

The post office in the town has a grille and a woman behind it who listens badly, and I stood at it on March twenty-fourth with my coat still done up.

"Right," said Dani. "That is the first thing yo
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