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every time.
“You pour too fast,” he said one afternoon.
“Dad, it’s coffee. Not a baptism.”
“It can be both if you respect it.”
His humor was dry until the end.
One day, when the trees outside had begun to turn red, he asked me to close the study door. He was sitting in the leather chair by the fireplace, a blanket over his knees, skin too pale, eyes still continue reading …
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