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2026-11-04 22:00:00I didn't tell my grandfather where I was going on Sunday. I told Mrs. Gale I wanted sea air, which was true, and I asked Thomas to bring the car round at eight, which he did without a single question.
I had a town and a surname. The surname had come from Sebastian, in a two-line email the morning after our dinner: My father's diary from that trip says Calder. Sorry I didn't remember it at the table. S.K.
Somewhere past New Haven I asked him the other question, the one I
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