She didn't open the letter until dark, after the flour was swept and the ovens ticked cool and the town had gone quiet enough that she could hear the harbor breathing against the pilings.
Birdie's handwriting on the envelope was steadier than Della expected, given what the lawyer had said about the last months — the falls, the forgetting, the stubborn refusal to let anyone from town "make a fuss....
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Chapter 3: The Letter in the Tin
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