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Penleven was as quiet as usual on what Slim decided would be his last day. Celia Birch was two days cremated, her ashes interred into a small casket in a quiet corner of Penleven’s churchyard. At Slim’s insistence both Charlotte’s doll and Amos’s final clock had been cremated with her, letting her go to her eternal rest with memories of the two most important people in her life.
Slim, after struggling with his guilt following Celia’s death, was slowly finding a renewed optimism.
Three days now since he had chosen to stay dry for Celia’s funeral—a low key affair where his presence had raised a few eyebrows from people whom he hadn’t expected to see either—and he felt as though he might have survived his jaunt in the country more or less intact.
With his mind cleared out, it had been
