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“This was your grandmother’s street,” the woman said. “She was the poissonnière at number 12. When she died, she left a box of letters for the son she had to give away—your father. He never came to claim them. I was her neighbor. I watched you walk this street for thirty years, not knowing you were walking over your own history.”

“You found everything,” she said. Her voice was dry as dust. rue montyon

She was old, maybe eighty. Her hands were like crumpled parchment. On the table between them lay a yellowed marriage certificate. “This was your grandmother’s street,” the woman said