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Chapter One

The Lighthouse Keeper

The lighthouse had not been lit in forty years, and yet every evening she climbed the stair as though the lamp still waited for her. Perhaps it did.1

The sea kept its own counsel. She had learned, in time, to keep hers.

ER Edith R.
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1 On the north cape, in the winter of 1911.
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The lighthouse had not been lit in forty years, and yet every evening she climbed the narrow stair as though the lamp still waited for her hand.

The sea kept its own counsel; she had learned to keep hers.

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She had come to the coast to finish the book, or to fail at it honestly, and could no longer tell the difference between the two.

The town kept early hours. Every evening she climbed the lighthouse stair, notebook under her arm, and wrote until the last light left the sea. The keeper’s cottage stood empty below.

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