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The Lighthouse Keeper
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As Mara reached the rock, her oar bumped a small wooden boat much older than hers, with a lantern still hanging from its bow. The lantern was warm. She climbed up the steps following the lantern's owner and pushed open the door at the top.
At the top, the room was empty, but a hatch in the floor stood open. Mara climbed down into a snug little room with a cot and a stove. A gray-haired woman looked up from a chair. 'I'm the keeper's daughter,' she said. 'I never left this rock. I just stopped letting the town see me.' Mara had found the lighthouse's quiet secret at last.
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