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It was the late evening of June 26, and the summer sun still refused to die.
Light poured through the tall windows of Oskar's study, painting the palace walls in warm gold as if nothing in the world could ever truly go wrong. Outside, the gardens breathed softly in the heat. Somewhere far off, birds kept singing as if they had not heard that the century was standing on a knife.
Inside, the letter lay on the floor where it had fallen.
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