I couldn’t move. I kept staring at the photograph, waiting for my mind to tell me that I had misunderstood what Cara had written. But there was no misunderstanding. “Daniel, …

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I turned slowly toward the voice. A man stood in the open doorway. For a moment, I couldn’t breathe. He was older than I remembered, his hair almost completely gray, …

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