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The Lighthouse Keeper
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My mom texts: 'why are you at the lighthouse?' I didn't tell her where I was. She sends: 'my dad used to say the keeper never left. He was still up there, doing the light. Even after they locked it down.'
I drive to Maple Street where the keeper's house sits. It's dark. Empty for decades. But when I get out of my car—I see light coming through the basement window. A faint, steady glow. The lighthouse is still on in the distance too.
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I go to the basement window. Peer in. The light is from a small lamp on a shelf. But next to it: papers. Maps of the coast. Photographs. All showing the lighthouse. All recent. All dated this year.
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Amara Okafor
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