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At a small Chicago clinic, an Alaska nurse called about my daughter and said, “Your son-in-law hasn’t been here.” I booked the first flight north without crying, and by dawn, his Bahamas honeymoon was no longer the worst thing I’d found. – News

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truth of who Emily had been placed beside the truth of what had been done to her.

Principal Warren cried quietly when she finished reading.

Then she opened a cabinet and took out a stack of manila folders banded together with a rubber band.

“These are for you,” she said.

Inside were notes Emily’s students had written during the months she was sick.

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