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  • The Last Three Notes

    The Last Three Notes

    San Antonio de Bexar, 1836. A 13-year-old boy crawls the ditches outside the Alamo for spent cannonballs to pay his mother’s debt. Every dusk he whistles his family’s tune, and someone on the church roof whistles the last three notes back. Read more