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They are old. They are neighbours. And they have not spoken in what feels, to each of them, like a very long time. The details of the original disagreement — what started it, who said what, when exactly the distance between two adjacent homes became a chasm — may have blurred over the years. That is the particular cruelty of a long-standing feud: the wound outlasts the memory of how it was inflicted. What remains is only the habit of not speaking, the wall of carefully mainta