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Chapter Seventy Five — What Grows

Penulis: Char Writes
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-04-04 14:30:50

April arrived with opinions.

Warm and insistent and slightly ahead of schedule the way April sometimes was in Sicily ... as though it had consulted the calendar and decided that March had gone on long enough and it was time to take over.

She noticed it first in the garden.

The tomatoes had doubled in height across three weeks. The rosebush had produced its first buds ... tight, dark red, still deciding whether to open. The herb was spreading slightly beyond its original planting boundary in the
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