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CHAPTER 68: WHAT MY FATHER SAW

Author: Frank Cannon
last update publish date: 2026-03-26 20:39:10

The east room was warm.

Someone had lit a fire in the small grate. The kind of fire that does not heat a large space but makes a small one feel inhabited. My father was sitting up in the bed. Not lying down anymore. He had moved pillows behind his back and was sitting with the careful deliberateness of someone whose body was relearning what upright felt like after long absence.

He looked at me when I came in.

He read my face in one pass.

"Mira told you," he said.

"Mira told me," I confirmed. I
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