Yusuf was an old man who lived on the rocky edge of the village, where the soil was thin and the water was scarce. He spent his days carving stone and tending to a small, stubborn olive grove. He never came to the Bey’s feasts, and he never asked for a loan during the frost.
One afternoon, Selim Bey rode his horse up to Yusuf’s hut. He looked at the old man’s frayed tunic and the dry bread on his table. minnet_eylemem
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