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he turned away fast.
“Don’t make a speech,” I said. “I’m old, not dead.”
He laughed through it.
Then I said the part that mattered most. “This land is not a prize for being my son. It is a responsibility for becoming the kind of man your mother believed you could be.”
He looked out over the pasture. “I don’t know if I can be that man.”
“Good. Only fools continue reading …
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