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“Don’t bury her—that’s not her in the coffin!” a little girl cries out at a Chicago funeral, stopping everything as a shocking truth inside the coffin is revealed

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for the room, too young for its violence, too thin beneath the oversized coat. But she had crossed half the city barefoot to interrupt a funeral full of armed men. Courage did not always arrive in armor. Sometimes it arrived on bare feet.

“Please,” Ava said. “Caroline saved my grandma. Let me help save her.”

Gabriel was quiet for a long moment.

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