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Submitted to Contest #326
The entire court was there for the grand unveiling — lords and ladies gathered from their country estates all for this moment. The King had had many portraits done across the years, but he knew somehow that this would be the last. He was aged fifty-seven, but had the weariness of a much older man. He slept until noon most days, and woke up in a foggy haze that never seemed to pass. His hands were always stiff and pained, like he’d spent hours out in the cold. It was too hard for him even to hold a pen these days, and his letters had to be di...
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