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Sometimes the past arrived in the form of headlights, cars crawling like tired ghosts along the avenues. Other times the present was the hand you took, cool and certain, or the breath of someone asleep. We worshipped the mundane: the hiss of a kettle, the long, honest clink of a spoon. In the dark, small mercies multiply; a single candle becomes a cathedral.