“Yes, she did.” Another silence. Then he gave the slightest nod, as if admitting something to himself. “Yeah,” he said quietly. “She probably did.” He left a minute later. I …
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The twenty-one-gun salute rolled across the Virginia hills like distant thunder, each crack striking the cold October air and then dissolving into the kind of silence that only follows military …
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