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desperate,” he said. “And careless.”
I felt nausea rise.
“What happens now?” I asked.
Thompson’s expression was calm.
“Now she gets charged,” he said.
Two weeks later, Mary was arrested for attempted identity fraud.
The news didn’t frame it as a tragic family story.
It framed it as what it was.
A young woman caught trying to steal again.
My mother called me continue reading …
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