My Brother Stranded Us Abroad to Steal My House, but We Were Waiting Inside

back that evening. We heard his car in the drive. We heard his footsteps on the porch, the porch that needed painting, the porch Grandmother had sat on every summer evening of my childhood. We heard his new key go into his new lock, the lock he had installed that morning in a house he thought was his, and we heard the door swing open.

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