I Was Hired To Pretend To Be His Granddaughter

that pregnancy at nineteen weeks, and how Walter had driven her home from the hospital without saying much, and how she’d spent twenty-seven years telling herself fathers forgot those things because the other option hurt too bad.

Before we left, she said, “He loved you.”

I said, “I loved him too.”

That was all.

Months after that, Allison came back.

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