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us, his face open and quiet.
Lily touched her hair.
“Mommy?”
“Yeah, baby?”
“My hair feels different now.”
I kissed the top of her head.
“Different bad?”
She thought about it.
“No. Different mine.”
I closed my eyes.
There it was.
Not justice. Justice was too small and too legal and too late.
This was something better.
Return.
Not to who she had been before.
To herself.continue reading …
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