Chapter 65 · for subscribers
Fifty-nine. Kaede, her own road, four roads up this terrace, delivered the ninth of November at noon — written in a failing pencil at midnight by a woman who had left that column empty fifty-seven times. I was fifteen minutes early for it. It is the only line in fifty years of that book that was ever filled in before the hour, and the only one I have ever been early for.
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