An Elderly Man Sat Fishing On A Wooden Pier Until Three Young Men Approached Him

for whom the interruption had resolved in their favor. He found this satisfying in a way he could not have explained precisely, the particular equilibrium of a morning that had contained trouble and contained it, that had ended with fish in a clean bucket and tea in a clean cup and Masha reading at the kitchen table in the October light.

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