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her neat handwriting, was a note:
For Celestine’s 18th birthday. You are loved. You are protected. Always. Grandma.
I sat on the guest room floor and read it until the words blurred.
She had written it years before I received it. Maybe she had known she would not be there when I turned eighteen. Maybe she had simply liked being early.
Either way, she had continue reading …
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