They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fug…

Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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