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was arguing wi

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as exploiting histo

. If only they knew how deeply she wi

nutes later, his hair dam

he said. "Trying to freeze the trust.

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who had quietly supported her work since the beginning. She lit the halls with oil lamps and spread Tomas's note

she said. "No fla

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the cellar archives, about the Quiet Rooms, about what her mo

as silence. Not the kind b

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. "Not just the scandal.

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hman or the Hawley-aligned paper

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vestigations. Elsie's disappearance. Mira's choice not to take the inheritan

, the ti

mes but similar power structures. One woman wrote, "You gave me the courage to speak after thirty yea

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ridge, some older than Thornwick's stained glass, others barely Mira's age. She showed them the drawing

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