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never wanted to look cruel. She preferred the clean, bright cruelty of people who called their ambition concern.
“It’s not about doing fine. It’s about reality. The fences, the barn, the taxes, the upkeep. You’re seventy-three, Harold.”
“Seventy-two until October.”
She gave me the kind of smile people give when they don’t plan to count your birthdays continue reading …
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