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August left the next morning. Connie watched him at the bus station鈥攈is satchel heavier with postcards than lightness, his shoulders squared. He kissed her on the temple, a brief, inevitable punctuation, and then he was on the bus, a silhouette against the pale blue of a morning that smelled like new paper. Bellweather began to change in the most quiet ways

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