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    Some superheroes do the quiet, important work of listening. A story about fathers and sons.

     

    His son’s hair. The skin at the back of his neck. His golden skin, the profile of his nose which Bruce can just see from above him. He would know his child through anything— give him the back of Dick’s hand and Bruce will know it, the curve of his ankle and Bruce will name it. Sometimes Bruce sees the man he has become and wonders, as if it is a miracle, how such a good man came to be.

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