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She picked up the basket one last time.

Antonio was seventy-three, a retired jazz pianist with knuckles like walnuts and eyes the color of the Mediterranean before a storm. He’d played in Barcelona and Paris, then walked away from it all to grow taronges —oranges, he explained, “that taste like sunshine and spite.” lil rae black antonio mallorca

Rae’s throat tightened. “You don’t know me.” She picked up the basket one last time

Rae worked in silence. The work was hard—bending, climbing ladders, checking for rot—but the silence was harder. Back home, silence meant danger. Here, it meant birdsong and wind and the distant clatter of a goat’s bell. silence meant danger. Here