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into her coat pocket and took off the locket she had worn every day of my life. Silver oval, engraved on the back with the same four words stitched into the gown’s hidden label. Quiet strength. ML 1962. She placed it around my neck and it settled between my collar bones exactly where she had worn it in her 1962 wedding portrait.

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