She Returned Home For Christmas Only To Discover Her Family Had Already Left Without Her

exposed. I cried for myself, for the girl who had thought her parents were busy and occasionally selfish but not monstrous. I cried because some part of childhood does not die until the day you look at the people who made you and admit they are capable of unforgivable things.

Then my phone buzzed. The hospital. Grandpa was awake and asking for me.

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