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AFTER HIS LESSONS FROM THE BELT my mother would always sit on the bed and spread out the great map of his fault lines—that webwork of unpredictable tensions. We studied where the quakes were most likely to occur: in barns, fields near sheds. We learned to sense the shifting, the slow grind of plates, the opening chasms of his hands.  ...

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