{ Part 1 } I came home from deployment three days early. My daughter wasn’t in her room.

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was the only solid thing left in her world.

“Daddy… there’s another hole,” she whispered again, her voice barely audible. “Grandma put me in this one because I cried. She said the other one is for when I’m really bad.”

My blood ran colder than the night air. I turned my flashlight toward the back of the yard. The beam swept across the frost-covered grass continue reading …

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