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Dad has gone and left me with this box of I don’t know what. It has stood like a book on the cookbook shelf with undiscarded Yellow Pages and other worthless paper, Read the rest of this entry »

—Nevertheless you did kill him?
—I was present at his death.
—Present with a knife.
—Mine was not the only hand on that knife.
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