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Inheritance

What was handed down, and what I have chosen to keep.

September 2023 · 6 min read

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Inherited a brass lamp, a recipe for kheer, an instinct for understatement, and a quiet suspicion of large claims.

inherited a brass lamp, a recipe for kheer, an instinct for understatement, and a quiet suspicion of large claims.

Some of it I have kept. Some of it I have set down, gently, the way one returns a borrowed book.

Inheritance, I have come to think, is not what is given but what is chosen.

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