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in a cathedral. She was a survivor reading the city by memory — the broken pipe, the low arch, the place where the brickwork gave way near the left wall.
“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
Then everything went wrong.
Ava slipped on a patch of slime and fell into shallow water. The splash echoed like a gunshot.
