A Lesson in Thorns YAN And at age twenty-eight

And at age twenty-eight

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A Lesson in Thorns YAN And at age twenty-eightTwelve years ago my mother disappeared into the fog shrouded moors of Thornchapel. I left her memory there, along with the others. Of my childhood friends, playing in the woods. Of the crumbling, magical world we found, and of the promises we made beneath the wild roses. I moved on, building a life as a librarian in America, far away from the remote manor where my mother was last seen alive. And then the letter arrives. A single word, in her