The school called. “Your daughter hasn’t been pick…

house. She ran to me the moment she saw me.

“Did you win your meeting?”

I knelt and hugged her so tightly she squeaked.

“Yes,” I whispered. “I won.”

That was the first day of our actual life together.

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