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Caption: After Rain in St. Malo
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Caption: It had rained during the night, and the lichen on the roof tiles was still wet with it. Water lay, darkly, in the cracks of the cobblestones and in divots worn into the stone walkways of the walls that rimmed the town.
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Caption: St. Malo is an old town on the coast of Normandy, and like other towns in France is quiet on Sundays.
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Caption: On this quiet Sunday, he was walking along the perimeter of the town, along the tops of the old walls. In windows he saw homes waking up, making coffee, reading le Monde. People were wearing robes and thick socks against the cold.
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Caption: He was in the car before the church doors opened. She was still in bed, up in the 4th floor room where the water spread out beneath the window. He'd be halfway to Paris before she woke, and more than gone by the time she'd start to worry about him never coming back.
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