October 1994. Two-forty in the morning. A man is standing in the front hall with his shoes on. Upstairs, four people are asleep and one is nine months old. He puts a foot on the first step. Second. Third. Fourth. Then he turns around and walks out the way he came. You've heard the castle story about spiral staircases and swords — it isn't true. But two things about those old stairs were: they forced men up one at a time, and the household could run them in the dark.

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