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nearly gave out.
“Will my son survive?”
The doctor paused.
That awful silence doctors use when certainty hasn’t caught up yet.
“He’s responding to treatment,” he finally said. “That’s encouraging.”
Encouraging.
Not a guarantee.
Just something to hold onto.
I spent the rest of the night clinging to those two words.
Just before dawn, a detective arrived.
His name continue reading …
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