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For the longest time my father ignored my existence. He was a noble, a rich, wealthy man who had a short affair with my mother, a maid in the palace. When they realized she was pregnant, he drew away from her in disgust and my mother was soon rendered to yet another nameless maid, soon working in the southern palace instead of the main one. But time stops for no man, least of all him. My father’s real wife never felt the swell of her belly nor held the body of a child. And time slipped through their fingers, fine golden grains, passing the...
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