cnu-At my fortieth birthday party, my sister swung a baseball bat into…

Derek had left an aluminum baseball bat leaning beside the wall after playing catch with Emma earlier that week.

Vanessa’s hand closed around it.

And in that tiny slice of time, before anyone understood what she was about to do, my beautiful birthday lights kept glowing like nothing in the world had gone wrong.

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