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By the time Earl Sutter came to Mercy Junction the Ford had boiled dry twice, the rye was down below its label, and the envelope on the passenger seat had worked one corner under the floor mat as if trying to escape.

The envelope had been there since March. His daughter had written EARL on it instead of Dad, which gave him some idea of its contents. He kept it unopened between the tax notices and the owner’s manual. The Ford kept its own papers there too, service records going back to the years when service could still have helped it. Earl regarded all these documents as a family.

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