They lived in the narrow building behind a courtyard that smelled of sourdough and laundry. In my version, the courtyard had a leaking communal tap, where grandmothers washed their hair and men argued over chess moves on Sundays. An old piano sat in the building's communal hallway; sometimes, in late hours, a thin melody threaded itself through the stairwell and made the plaster vibrate. The children's mother dried jars on the windowsill and kept a jar of honey for visitors; their father worked the night shift at the foundry and arrived home with the faint scent of metal and newsprint.
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