The Opening to the Story
After I published my son’s literary estate in a book, I still had a few scraps of writing and documents of various kinds that I didn’t know how to put together with everything that seemed clear and logical to me, and for that reason they never saw the light in print. Once I started seeking some method that would solve a few of these riddles…
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