medium · Act reading
When Mara finally unpacked the last box in the new apartment, she found her grandmother's clock wrapped in a dish towel at the bottom. She had not asked for it; her mother had simply slipped it in among the plates. For a long moment Mara stood holding it, listening to a silence where its ticking used to be, and then she set it on the empty mantel without winding it. It belonged there, she decided, even quiet, the way a photograph belongs on a wall whether or not anyone is looking at it. Mara's decision to leave the clock unwound most nearly suggests that she values it for its:
- ability to keep accurate time in her new home.
- usefulness in filling the empty space on the mantel.
- meaning as a connection to her family rather than its function.
- monetary worth as an inherited antique.
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