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looked at the closed door of my sewing room, at the refrigerator with the chore chart still stuck to it, at the whiteboard in the pantry.
Then I went upstairs and opened the closet.
The steel box was exactly where it had always been.
I had to step on the footstool to reach it, which I did carefully because my knees aren’t what they were, and Gerald would continue reading …
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