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to accept that. After his bath he fell asleep hugging his stuffed bear, one hand tucked under his cheek, his lashes still damp from tears he thought I hadn’t noticed. I stood in his doorway a while, the way you do, and then I went to the shelf and picked up the car.
It weighed almost nothing.
That was the thing that undid me. Not the scratches or the continue reading …
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