The Nail in the Tree

The Nail in the Tree

The sweat in the smithy tasted of coal and bad decisions. Jakob Hammer, 28, wanted his nails to be remembered. Not the kind you lose in a plank of pine — the kind people still talk about in three hundred years.

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