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The candle flickered, gasped, died in the stiff night.

Such things, happening the way they do, send us into a frenzied panic or a paused frenzy. I opted for the latter.

I’d waited long for her return after our sudden parting.

“Mother,” she said.

I smiled at my daughter’s ghost.

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