And he breathed it in the way he always did, with his wife’s hand in his and his children around him and his land spread wide and dark in every direction, and felt the full and absolute weight of a life that had come true.

Not the life he had planned.

Better than that.

The life he had not known enough to plan for that had arrived on a broken wheel on a summer morning and changed every single thing exactly as it was supposed to.

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