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I looked at him for a moment. “You didn’t lose everything,” I said quietly. “You chose it.”
He flinched slightly, then nodded. “Your grandfather used to say that.”
“I know.”
A long silence stretched between us on the sidewalk. Cars passed. A breeze moved through the old trees lining the street.
“I thought,” he started, then stopped. “I thought if I could continue reading …
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