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Both My Duties

I have spent my whole career reading the details other people walk past.

I don’t have to dig.

I only have to look.”

Bronwen and Hywel were staring at me as though the floor had moved.

For six years, Gethin’s family had decided I was a dull housewife with a small clerical job somewhere, living off their son’s success.

What I had actually done was take a long leave from a career they never troubled to ask about, to nurse Gethin back to health after a car accident years ago — a leave his parents had quietly rewritten, over dinners I wasn’t at, into the story of a woman who contributed nothing.

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