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holding Leo’s hand.
He looked up at me.
“Are we done?”
I looked at the sky.
Ohio gray. Familiar. Ordinary.
“Yes,” I said. “We’re done.”
He smiled.
“Can we get fries?”
And just like that, life continued.
Not perfectly.
But ours.
Chapter 7: One Year Later
One year after the pool, Leo jumped into the ocean.
Not because anyone forced him.
Not because anyone called him continue reading …
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